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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Letter F 3, 1884
Teach tea drinkers to let tea alone. Do not give it to them at the
table. If, in some circumstances, it is deemed necessary, let it be taken
in a private room, that all cause of stumbling may be removed.
Manuscript 22, 1887
Diseases of every stripe and type have been brought upon human
beings by the use of tea and coffee and the narcotics, opium and
tobacco. These hurtful indulgences must be given up, not only one but
all; for all are hurtful, and ruinous to the physical, mental, and moral
powers, and should be discontinued from a health standpoint.
Testimonies for the Church 4:365
You are highly nervous and excitable. Tea has an influence to
excite the nerves, and coffee benumbs the brain; both are highly
injurious. You should be careful of your diet. Eat the most wholesome,
nourishing food, and keep yourself in a calm state of mind, where you
will not become so excited and fly into a passion.
Testimonies for the Church 3:569
Satan is corrupting minds and destroying souls through his subtle
temptations. Will our people see and feel the sin of indulging perverted
appetite? Will they discard tea, coffee, flesh-meats, and all stimulating
food, and devote the means expended for these hurtful indulgences
to spreading the truth? What power can the tobacco-devotee have to
stay the progress of intemperance? There must be a revolution in our
world upon the subject of tobacco before the ax is laid at the root of
the tree. We press the subject still closer. Tea and coffee are fostering
the appetite which is developing for stronger stimulants, as tobacco
and liquor.
The Review and Herald, July 29, 1884 No. 31 (Healthful Living,
164)
Hot drinks are debilitating; and besides, those who indulge in
their use become slaves to the habit.... But if anything is needed to
quench thirst, pure water drunk some little time before or after the