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What True Temperance Embodies
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to health, and in many cases sows the seeds of drunkenness. True
temperance teaches us to dispense entirely with everything hurtful,
and to use judiciously that which is healthful. There are few who
realize as they should how much their habits of diet have to do with
their health, their character, their usefulness in this world, and their
eternal destiny. The appetite should ever be in subjection to the
moral and intellectual powers. The body should be servant to the
mind, and not the mind to the body.—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 562
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Eating Too Frequently or Too Much
—Those who eat and
work intemperately and irrationally, talk and act irrationally. It
is not necessary to drink alcoholic liquors in order to be intemperate.
The sin of intemperate eating—eating too frequently, too much, and
of rich, unwholesome food—destroys the healthy action of the diges-
tive organs, affects the brain, and perverts the judgment, preventing
rational, calm, healthy thinking and acting.—
Christian Temperance
and Bible Hygiene, 155
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Those who will not, after the light has come to them, eat and
drink from principle, instead of being controlled by appetite, will
not be tenacious in regard to being governed by principle in other
things.—
The Health Reformer, August, 1866
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Temperance in Dressing, Also
—God’s people are to learn the
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meaning of temperance in all things. They are to practice temperance
in eating and drinking and dressing. All self-indulgence is to be
cut away from their lives. Before they can really understand the
meaning of true sanctification and of conformity to the will of Christ,
they must, by co-operating with God, obtain the mastery over wrong
habits and practices.—
Medical Ministry, 275
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Temperance in Labor
—We should practice temperance in our
labor. It is not our duty to place ourselves where we shall be over-
worked. Some may at times be placed where this is necessary, but it
should be the exception, not the rule. We are to practice temperance
in all things. If we honor the Lord by acting our part, He will on
His part preserve our health. We should have a sensible control of
all our organs. By practicing temperance in eating, in drinking, in
dressing, in labor, and in all things, we can do for ourselves what no
physician can do for us.—
Manuscript 41, 1908
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Living on Borrowed Capital
—Intemperance in almost every-
thing, exists on every hand. Those who make great exertions to