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Temperance
is affixed a penalty, which must sooner or later be realized. The
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majority of diseases which the human family have been and still are
suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic
laws. They seem indifferent in regard to the matter of health, and
work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken
down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug
themselves to death.—
Counsels on Diet and Foods, 19
.
Simple Living Versus the Drugstore
—Thousands who are af-
flicted might recover their health, if, instead of depending upon the
drugstore for their life, they would discard all drugs, and live simply,
without using tea, coffee, liquor, or spices, which irritate the stom-
ach and leave it weak, unable to digest even simple food without
stimulation. The Lord is willing to let His light shine forth in clear,
distinct rays to all who are weak and feeble.—
Medical Ministry,
229
.
A Reckless Course
—To use drugs while continuing evil habits,
is certainly inconsistent, and greatly dishonors God by dishonoring
the body which He has made. Yet for all this, stimulants and drugs
continue to be prescribed, and freely used by human beings, while
the hurtful indulgences that produce the disease are not discarded.—
Letter 19, 1892
.
Those who will gratify their appetite, and then suffer because of
their intemperance, and take drugs to relieve them, may be assured
that God will not interpose to save health and life which is so reck-
lessly periled. The cause has produced the effect. Many, as their
last resort, follow the directions in the word of God, and request
the prayers of the elders of the church for their restoration to health.
God does not see fit to answer prayers offered in behalf of such,
for He knows that if they should be restored to health, they would
again sacrifice it upon the altar of unhealthy appetite.—
Spiritual
Gifts 4a:145
.
A Sin Against the Children
—If those who take these drugs
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were alone the sufferers, then the evil would not be as great. But par-
ents not only sin against themselves in swallowing drug poisons, but
they sin against their children. The vitiated state of their blood, the
poison distributed throughout the system, the broken constitution,
and various drug diseases, as the result of drug poisons, are trans-
mitted to their offspring, and left them as a wretched inheritance,