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Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the
use of water, trust in divine power—these are the true remedies.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 127
(1905).
Whatever injures the health not only lessens physical vigor but
tends to weaken the mental and moral powers. Indulgence in any
unhealthful practice makes it more difficult for one to discriminate
between right and wrong and hence more difficult to resist evil.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 128
(1905).
Return to the Original Diet
God is trying to lead us back, step by step, to His original design—
that man should subsist upon the natural products of the earth. Among
those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord meat eating will
eventually be done away; flesh will cease to form a part of their diet.
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We should ever keep this end in view and endeavor to work steadily
toward it.—
Counsels on Health, 450
(1890).
Greater reforms should be seen among the people who claim to be
looking for the soon appearing of Christ. Health reform is to do among
our people a work which it has not yet done. There are those who
ought to be awake to the danger of meat eating who are still eating the
flesh of animals, thus endangering the physical, mental, and spiritual
health. Many who are now only half converted on the question of meat
eating will go from God’s people, to walk no more with them.—
The
Review and Herald, May 27, 1902
.
Time for Fasting and Prayer
Now and onward till the close of time the people of God should be
more earnest, more wide-awake, not trusting in their own wisdom, but
in the wisdom of their Leader. They should set aside days for fasting
and prayer. Entire abstinence from food may not be required, but they
should eat sparingly of the most simple food.—
Counsels on Diet and
Foods, 188, 189
(1904).
The true fasting which should be recommended to all is abstinence
from every stimulating kind of food, and the proper use of wholesome,
simple food, which God has provided in abundance. Men need to think
less of what they shall eat and drink of temporal food, and much more