Water Drinking
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while the free use of hot drinks is debilitating. In fact, the more liquid
there is taken with the meals, the more difficult it is for the food to
digest; for the liquid must be absorbed before digestion can begin.
The Health Reformer, January 1, 1871 (Healthful Living, 225,
226)
Eat sparingly, thus relieving the system of unnecessary burden,
and encourage cheerfulness; take proper exercise in the open air, bathe
frequently, and drink freely of pure, soft water.
How to Live, 4:56
Thousands have died for want of pure water and pure air, who might
have lived.... These blessings they need in order to become well. If
they would become enlightened, and let medicine alone, and accustom
themselves to outdoor exercise, and to air in their houses, summer
and winter, and use soft water for drinking and bathing purposes, they
would be comparatively well and happy instead of dragging out a
miserable existence.
How to Live, 3:62-63
If, in their fevered state, water had been given them to drink freely,
and applications had also been made externally, long days and nights
of suffering would have been saved, and many precious lives spared.
But thousands have died with raging fevers consuming them, until the
fuel which fed the fever was burned up, the vitals consumed, and have
died in the greatest agony, without being permitted to have water to
allay their burning thirst. Water, which is allowed a senseless building
to put out the raging elements, is not allowed human beings to put out
the fire which is consuming vitals.
Letter W 35, 1890
I should eat regularly of the most healthful food which will make
the best quality of blood, and I should not work intemperately if it is
in my power to avoid doing so. And when I violate the laws God has
established in my being, I am to repent and reform, and place myself
in the most favorable condition under the doctors God has provided,—
pure air, pure water, and the healing, precious sunlight. Water can be