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Tea and Coffee
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capable of exertion. The aftereffect is prostration, not only mental
and physical, but moral. As a result we see nervous men and women,
of unsound judgment and unbalanced mind. They often manifest
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a hasty, impatient, accusing spirit, viewing the faults of others as
through a magnifying glass, and utterly unable to discern their own
defects—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 35, 36
.
The Tongue Is Loosened
—When these tea and coffee users
meet together for social entertainment, the effects of their pernicious
habit are manifest. All partake freely of the favorite beverages, and
as the stimulating influence is felt, their tongues are loosened, and
they begin the wicked work of talking against others. Their words
are not few or well chosen. The tidbits of gossip are passed around,
too often the poison of scandal as well. These thoughtless gossipers
forget that they have a witness. An unseen Watcher is writing their
words in the books of heaven. All these unkind criticisms, these
exaggerated reports, these envious feelings, expressed under the
excitement of the cup of tea, Jesus registers as against Himself.
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My
brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”—
Christian Temperance and
Bible Hygiene, 36
.
An Economic Waste
—The money expended for tea and cof-
fee is worse than wasted. They do the user only harm, and that
continually—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 35
.
Destructive Narcotics
—All should bear a clear testimony
against tea and coffee, never using them. They are narcotics, injuri-
ous alike to the brain and to the other organs of the body.—
Counsels
on Diet and Foods, 430
.
Destroys Temple of God
—The drunkard sells his reason for a
cup of poison. Satan takes control of his reason, affections, con-
science. Such a man is destroying the temple of God. Tea drinking
helps to do this same work. Yet how many there are who place these
destroying agencies on their tables, thereby quenching the divine
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attributes.—
Manuscript 130, 1899
.
Use Inimical to Spiritual Life
—Tea and coffee drinking is a
sin, an injurious indulgence, which, like other evils, injures the soul.
These darling idols create an excitement, a morbid action of the
nervous system.—
Counsels on Diet and Foods, 425
.