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By Voice—a Part of Our Evangelistic Message
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Schools of Health to Follow Public Meetings
—There is a great
work to be done in bringing the principles of health reform to the
notice of the people. Public meetings should be held to introduce
the subject, and schools should be held in which those who are
interested can be told more particularly about our health foods and
of how a wholesome, nourishing, appetizing diet can be provided
without the use of meat, tea, or coffee....
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Press home the temperance question with all the force of the
Holy Spirit’s unction. Show the need of total abstinence from all
intoxicating liquor. Show the terrible harm that is wrought in the
human system by the use of tobacco and alcohol.—
Evangelism, 534
.
Show Why We Have Changed Our Dietetic Habits
—
Lectures should be given explaining why reforms in diet are es-
sential, and showing that the use of highly seasoned food causes
inflammation of the delicate lining of the digestive organs. Let it be
shown why we as a people have changed our habits of eating and
drinking. Show why we discard tobacco and all intoxicating liquor.
Lay down the principles of health reform clearly and plainly, and
with this, let there be placed on the table an abundance of whole-
some food, tastefully prepared; and the Lord will help you to make
impressive the urgency of reform, and will lead them to see that this
reform is for their highest good.—
Medical Ministry, 286
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Drive It to the Hilt
—When we have shown the people that we
have right principles regarding health reform, we should then take
up the temperance question in all its bearings, and drive it home to
the hilt.—
Letter 63, 1905
.
Present It Attractively
—Present the principles of temperance
in their most attractive form. Circulate the books that give instruction
in regard to healthful living.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:136
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The High Standard for Temperance Meetings
—Great care
should be taken to make the temperance meetings as elevated and
ennobling as possible. Avoid a surface work and everything of a
theatrical character. Those who realize the solemn character of this
work will keep the standard high. But there is a class who have
no real respect for the cause of temperance; their only concern is
to show off their smartness upon the stage. The pure, the thought-
ful, and those who understand the object of the work, should be
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encouraged to labor in these great branches of reform. They may