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Chapter 4—Temperance Education an Objective of
Our Medical Work
Established to Preach True Temperance
—Our Sanitariums
are established, to preach the truth of true temperance.—
Counsels
on Diet and Foods, 162
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Presented From Moral Standpoint
—In our sanitariums our
ministers, who labor in word and doctrine, should give short talks
upon the principles of temperance, showing that the body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit, and bringing to the minds of the people
the responsibility resting upon them as God’s purchased possession
to make the body a holy temple, fit for the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit. As this instruction is given, the people will become interested
in Bible doctrine.
There must also be presented the moral pestilence that is making
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the inhabitants of the world today like the inhabitants of the world
before the Flood—bold, blasphemous, intemperate, corrupted. The
sins that are practiced are making this earth a lazar house of corrup-
tion. These sins must be sternly rebuked. Those who preach must
uplift the standard of temperance from a Christian standpoint. As
temperance is presented as a part of the gospel, many will see their
need of reform.—
Manuscript 14, 1901
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Doctors to Instruct in Temperance Lines
—They should give
instruction to the people in regard to the dangers of intemperance.
This evil must be more boldly met in the future than it has been in the
past. Ministers and doctors should set forth the evils of intemperance.
Both should work in the gospel with power to condemn sin and exalt
righteousness. Those ministers or doctors who do not make personal
appeals to the people are remiss in their duty. They fail of doing the
work which God has appointed them.—
Testimonies for the Church
6:110
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To Teach Strict Temperance
—When a physician sees a patient
suffering from disease caused by improper eating and drinking or
other wrong habits, yet neglects to tell him of this, he is doing his
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