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can provide those who attend with wholesome food, and you are to
make your efforts educational.
The Lord gave us favor with the people, and we had many won-
derful opportunities to demonstrate what could be done through the
principles of health reform to restore to health those whose cases had
been pronounced hopeless.
We should put forth greater efforts to teach the people the truths
of health reform. At every camp-meeting an effort should be made to
demonstrate what can be done in providing an appetizing, wholesome
diet from grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. In every place where new
companies are brought into the truth, instruction should be given in
the science of preparing wholesome food. Workers should be chosen
who can labor from house to house in an educational campaign.
Testimonies for the Church 6:112-113
As we near the close of time, we must rise higher and still higher
upon the question of health reform and Christian temperance, pre-
senting it in a more positive and decided manner. We must strive
continually to educate the people, not only by our words but by our
practice. Precept and practice combined have a telling influence.
At the camp-meeting, instruction on health topics should be given
to the people. At our meetings in Australia, lectures on health subjects
were given daily, and a deep interest was aroused. A tent for the use
of physicians and nurses was on the ground, medical advice was given
freely, and was sought by many. Thousands of people attended the
lectures, and at the close of the camp-meeting the people were not
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satisfied to let the matter drop with what they had already learned. In
several cities where camp-meetings were held, some of the leading
citizens urged that a branch sanitarium be established, promising their
co-operation.
Testimonies for the Church 6:370-371
There is a message regarding health reform to be borne in every
church. There is a work to be done in every school. Neither princi-
pal nor teachers should be entrusted with the education of the youth
until they have a practical knowledge of this subject. Some have felt
at liberty to criticize and question and find fault with health-reform