Teaching Health Principles
351
of self-indulgence in eating, drinking, and dressing, of the overtaxation
of the vital forces that has brought his patients where they are. He will
not increase the evil by administering drugs till exhausted nature gives
up the struggle, but will teach the patients how to form correct habits,
and to aid nature in her work of restoration by a wise use of her own
simple remedies.
In all our health institutions, it should be made a special feature
of the work to give instruction in regard to the laws of health. The
principles of health reform should be carefully and thoroughly set
before all, both patients and helpers. This work requires moral courage;
for while many will profit by such efforts, others will be offended. But
the true disciple of Christ, he whose mind is in harmony with the mind
of God, while constantly learning, will be teaching as well, leading
the minds of others upward, away from the prevailing errors of the
world.—[
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 121
]
Counsels on
Health, 451, 452, 1890
[450]
Cooperation of Sanitariums and Schools
777. Clear light has been given that our educational institutions
should be connected with our sanitariums wherever this is possible.
The work of the two institutions is to blend. I am thankful that we
have a school at Loma Linda. The educational talent of competent
physicians is a necessity to the schools where medical missionary
evangelists are to be trained for service. The students in the school
are to be taught to be strict health reformers. The instruction given
in regard to disease and its causes, and how to prevent disease, and
the training given in the treatment of the sick, will prove an invaluable
education, and one that the students in all our schools should have.
This blending of our schools and sanitariums will prove an advan-
tage in many ways. Through the instruction given by the sanitarium,
students will learn how to avoid forming careless, intemperate habits
in eating.—
Letter 82, 1908
In Evangelistic Work and City Missions
778. As a people we have been given the work of making known
the principles of health reform. There are some who think that the
question of diet is not of sufficient importance to be included in their