Tea and Coffee
351
meal is all that nature requires. Never take tea, coffee, beer, wine, or
any spirituous liquor. Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the
tissues.
Unpublished Testimonies, December 4, 1896 (Healthful Living,
246)
We want sanitariums where maladies may be cured by nature’s
own provisions, and where the people may be taught how to treat
themselves when sick; where they will learn to eat temperately of
wholesome food, and to be educated to discard all narcotics, tea,
coffee, fermented wines, and stimulants of all kinds, and the flesh of
dead animals.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 44
An increasing desire for rich food has been indulged, until it has
become the fashion to crowd all the delicacies possible into the stom-
ach. Especially at parties of pleasure is the appetite indulged with but
little restraint. Rich dinners and late suppers are served, consisting of
highly seasoned meats, with rich sauces, cakes, pies, ices, tea, coffee,
etc. No wonder that, with such a diet, people have sallow complexions,
and suffer untold agonies from dyspepsia.
Manuscript 115, 1903
Thousands who are afflicted might recover their health if, instead
of depending upon the drug-store for their life, would discard all drugs,
and live simply, without using tea, coffee, liquor, or spices, which
irritate the stomach and leave it weak, unable to digest even simple
food without stimulation. The Lord is willing to let His light shine
forth in clear, distinct rays to all who are weak and feeble.
Testimonies for the Church 1:224-225
Some who are poor in this world’s goods are apt to place all the
straight testimony upon the shoulders of the men of property. But
they do not realize that they also have a work to do. God requires
them to make a sacrifice. He calls upon them to sacrifice their idols.
They should lay aside such hurtful stimulants as tobacco, tea, and