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Temperance
the false props that have been brought in to take the place of nature
are expelled.—
The Review and Herald, April 19, 1887
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Cause of Time Lost on Account of Sickness
—Many who have
accustomed themselves to the use of stimulating drinks, suffer from
headache and nervous prostration, and lose much time on account
of sickness. They imagine they cannot live without the stimulus,
and are ignorant of its effects upon health. What makes it the more
dangerous is, that its evil effects are so often attributed to other
causes.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 35
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Habit-Forming Beverages
—Tea and coffee are neither whole-
some nor necessary. They are of no use as far as the health of the
body is concerned. But practice in the use of these things becomes
habit.—
Manuscript 86, 1897
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An Unnatural Craving Produced
—The continued use of these
nerve irritants is followed by headache, wakefulness, palpitation of
the heart, indigestion, trembling, and many other evils; for they
wear away the life forces. Tired nerves need rest and quiet instead
of stimulation and overwork. Nature needs time to recuperate her
exhausted energies. When her forces are goaded on by the use of
stimulants, more will be accomplished for a time; but as the system
becomes debilitated by their constant use, it gradually becomes
more difficult to rouse the energies to the desired point. The demand
for stimulants becomes more difficult to control, until the will is
overborne, and there seems to be no power to deny the unnatural
craving. Stronger and still stronger stimulants are called for, until
exhausted nature can no longer respond.—
The Ministry of Healing,
326, 327
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Preparing the System for Disease
—It is these hurtful stimu-
lants that are surely undermining the constitution and preparing the
system for acute diseases, by impairing Nature’s fine machinery
and battering down her fortifications erected against disease and
premature decay.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:548, 549
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The Whole System Suffers
—Through the use of stimulants,
the whole system suffers. The nerves are unbalanced, the liver is
morbid in its action, the quality and circulation of the blood are
affected, and the skin becomes inactive and sallow. The mind,
too, is injured. The immediate influence of these stimulants is to
excite the brain to undue activity, only to leave it weaker and less