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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Testimonies for the Church 9:168
I have been instructed that we are not to delay to do the work that
needs to be done in health reform lines. Through this work we are to
reach souls in the highways and byways. I have been given special
light that in our sanitariums many souls will receive and obey present
truth. In these institutions men and women are to be taught how to
care for their own bodies, and at the same time how to become sound
in the faith. They are to be taught what is meant by eating the flesh
and drinking the blood of the Son of God. Said Christ, “The words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
John 6:63
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Our sanitariums are to be schools in which instruction shall be
given in medical missionary lines. They are to bring to sin-sick souls
the leaves of the tree of life, which will restore to them peace and hope
and faith in Christ Jesus.
Letter B 82, 1908
Clear light has been given that our educational institutions should
be connected with our sanitariums wherever this is possible. The work
of the two institutions is to blend. I am thankful that we have a school
at Loma Linda. The educational talent of competent physicians is a
necessity to the schools where medical missionary evangelists are to
be trained for service. The students in the school are to be taught to
be strict health-reformers. The instruction given in regard to disease
and its causes, and how to prevent disease, and the training given in
the treatment of the sick, will prove an invaluable education, and one
that the students in all our schools should have.
The blending of our schools and sanitariums will prove an advan-
tage in many ways. Through the instruction given by the sanitarium,
students will learn how to avoid forming careless, intemperate habits
in eating.
Manuscript 27, 1906
When the state fair was held in Battle Creek, our people took with
them onto the grounds three or four cooking stoves, and demonstrated
how good meals might be prepared without the use of fleshmeat. We
were told that we set the best table on the ground. Whenever large
gatherings are held, it is your privilege to devise plans whereby you