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lessons, easy to be understood, which will be an encouragement to
the soul. Talk on health reform, and do not you, my brother, become
burden bearer in so many lines that you cannot teach the simple lessons
of health reform. Those who go from the sanitarium should go so
well instructed that they can teach others the methods of treating their
families.
There is danger of spending far too much money on machinery
and appliances which the patients can never use in their home lessons.
They should rather be taught how to regulate the diet, so that the living
machinery of the whole being will work in harmony.—
Letter 204,
1906
Temperance Instruction to Be Given
769. In our medical institutions clear instruction should be given
in regard to temperance. The patients should be shown the evil of
intoxicating liquor, and the blessing of total abstinence. They should
be asked to discard the things that have ruined their health, and the
place of these things should be supplied with an abundance of fruit.
Oranges, lemons, prunes, peaches, and many other varieties can be
obtained; for the Lord’s world is productive, if painstaking effort is
put forth.—
Letter 145, 1904
770. Those who are struggling against the power of appetite should
be instructed in the principles of healthful living. They should be
shown that violation of the laws of health, by creating diseased condi-
tions and unnatural cravings, lays the foundation of the liquor habit.
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Only by living in obedience to the principles of health can they hope to
be freed from the craving for unnatural stimulants. While they depend
upon divine strength to break the bonds of appetite, they are to cooper-
ate with God by obedience to His laws, both moral and physical.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 176, 177, 1905
Comprehensive Nature of Reform Required
771. What is the special work that we are called upon to do in
our health institutions? Instead of giving, by precept and example, an
education in the indulgence of perverted appetite, educate away from
these things. Lift the standard of reform in every line. The apostle Paul
lifts up his voice, “I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies