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What True Temperance Embodies
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life. Not a dollar of his wealth can that man take with him who has
obtained it at such a terrible price. Money, palaces, and rich apparel
avail him nothing now; his lifework is worse than useless.—
The
Health Reformer, April, 1877
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To Guard Every Fiber of the Being
—Every organ, every fiber
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of the being, is to be sacredly guarded from every harmful practice,
if we would not be among the number that Christ represents as
walking in the same dishonorable path as did the inhabitants of the
world before the Flood. Those in this number will be appointed to
destruction, because they have persisted in carrying lawful habits
to extremes, and have created and indulged habits that have no
foundation in nature, and that become a warring lust....
The mass of the inhabitants of this world are destroying for
themselves the true basis of the highest earthly interest. They are
destroying their power of self-control, and making themselves in-
capable of appreciating eternal realities. Willingly ignorant of their
own structure, they lead their children in the same path of self-
indulgence, causing them to suffer the penalty of the transgression
of nature’s laws....
Our habits of eating and drinking show whether we are of the
world or among the number that the Lord by His mighty cleaver of
truth has separated from the world. These are His peculiar people,
zealous of good works.—
Manuscript 86, 1897
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Temperance in All Things
—In order to preserve health, tem-
perance in all things is necessary,—temperance in labor, temperance
in eating and drinking. Our heavenly Father sent the light of health
reform to guard against the evils resulting from a debased appetite,
that those who love purity and holiness may know how to use with
discretion the good things He has provided for them, and that by
exercising temperance in daily life, they may be sanctified through
the truth.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 52
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The advocates of temperance should place their standard on a
broader platform. They would then be laborers together with God.
With every iota of their influence they should encourage the spread
of reform principles.—
Manuscript 86, 1897
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