Teaching Health Principle
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Teaching Health Principles
Part I-Instruction to be Given
on Health Topics
The Need of Health Education
(1905) M.H. 125, 126
759. Education in health principles was never more needed than now.
Notwithstanding the wonderful progress in so many lines relating to the
comforts and conveniences of life, even to sanitary matters and to the
treatment of disease, the decline in physical vigor and power of endurance is
alarming. It demands the attention of all who have at heart the well-being of
their fellow men. {CD 441.1}
Our artificial civilization is encouraging evils destructive of sound
principles. Custom and fashion are at war with nature. The practices they
enjoin, and the indulgences they foster, are steadily lessening both physical
and mental strength, and bringing upon the race an intolerable burden.
Intemperance and crime, disease and wretchedness, are everywhere. {CD 441.2}
Many transgress the laws of health through ignorance, and they need
instruction. But the greater number know better than they do. They need to be
impressed with the importance of making their knowledge a guide of life. {CD
441.3}
(1905) M.H. 146
760. There is great need of instruction in regard to dietetic reform.
Wrong habits of eating and the use of unhealthful food are in no small degree
responsible for the intemperance and crime and wretchedness that curse the
world. {CD 441.4}
[MEDICAL MISSIONARY, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1892] C.H. 505
761. If we would elevate the moral standard in any country where we may
be called to go, we must begin by correcting their physical habits. Virtue of
character depends upon the right action of the powers of the mind and body.
442
{CD 441.5}
Many Will Be Enlightened
(1900) 6T 378, 379
762. The Lord has presented before me that many, many will be rescued
from physical, mental, and moral degeneracy through the practical influence of
health reform. Health talks will be given, publications will be multiplied. The
principles of health reform will be received with favor; and many will be
enlightened. The influences that are associated with health reform will commend
it to the judgment of all who want light; and they will advance step by step to
receive the special truths for this time. Thus truth and righteousness will
meet together.... {CD 442.1}
The gospel and the medical missionary work are to advance together. The
gospel is to be bound up with the principles of true health reform.
Christianity is to be brought into the practical life. Earnest, thorough
reformatory work is to be done. True Bible religion is an outflowing of the
love of God for fallen man. God's people are to advance in straightforward
lines to impress the hearts of those who are seeking for truth, who desire to
act their part aright in this intensely earnest age. We are to present the
principles of health reform before the people, doing all in our power to lead
men and women to see the necessity of these principles and to practice them.
{CD 442.2}
Pioneer Efforts in Teaching Health Reform Principles
MS 27, 1906
763. When the State fair was held in Battle Creek [1864], our people
took with them onto the grounds three or four cooking stoves, and demonstrated
how good meals might be prepared without the use of flesh meat. We were told
that we set the best table on the ground. Whenever large gatherings are held,
it is your privilege to devise plans whereby you can provide those who attend
with wholesome food, and you are to make your efforts educational. {CD 442.3}
The Lord gave us favor with the people, and we had many wonderful
opportunities to demonstrate what could be done
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through the principles of health reform to restore to health those whose cases
had been pronounced hopeless. . . . {CD 442.4}
At Camp Meetings and from House to House
We should put forth greater efforts to teach the people the truths of
health reform. At every camp meeting an effort should be made to demonstrate
what can be done in providing an appetizing, wholesome diet from grains,
fruits, nuts, and vegetables. In every place where new companies are brought
into the truth, instruction should be given in the science of preparing
wholesome food. Workers should be chosen who can labor from house to house in
an educational campaign. {CD 443.1}
The Medical Tent on the Campground
(1900) 6T 112, 113
764. As we near the close of time, we must rise higher and still higher
upon the question of health reform and Christian temperance, presenting it in a
more positive and decided manner. We must strive continually to educate the
people, not only by our words, but by our practice. Precept and practice
combined have a telling influence. {CD 443.2}
At the camp meeting, instruction on health topics should be given to
the people. At our meetings in Australia, lectures on health subjects were
given daily, and a deep interest was aroused. A tent for the use of physicians
and nurses was on the ground, medical advice was given freely, and was sought
by many. Thousands of people attended the lectures, and at the close of the
camp meeting the people were not satisfied to let the matter drop with what
they had already learned. In several cities where camp meetings were held, some
of the leading citizens urged that a branch sanitarium be established,
promising their cooperation. {CD 443.3}
By Example as Well as Precept
(1900) 6T 112
765. The large gatherings of our people afford an excellent opportunity
of illustrating the principles of health reform. Some years ago at these
gatherings much was said in regard to health reform and the benefits of a
vegetarian diet;
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but at the same time flesh meats were furnished at the tables in the dining
tent, and various unhealthful articles of food were sold at the provision
stand. Faith without work is dead; and the instruction upon health reform,
denied by practice, did not make the deepest impression. At later camp meetings
those in charge have educated by practice as well as by precept. No meat has
been furnished at the dining tent, but fruits, grains, and vegetables have been
supplied in abundance. As visitors ask questions in regard to the absence of
meat, the reason is plainly stated, that flesh is not the most healthful food.
[SALE OF CANDIES, ICE CREAM, AND OTHER KNICKKNACKS ON THE
CAMPGROUND--529, 530] {CD 443.4}
In Our Sanitariums
Letter 79, 1905
766. The light given me was that a sanitarium should be established,
and that in it drug medication should be discarded, and simple, rational
methods of treatment employed for the healing of disease. In this institution
people were to be taught how to dress, breathe, and eat properly,--how to
prevent sickness by proper habits of living.
[SEE ALSO 458] {CD 444.1}
Letter 233, 1905
767. Our sanitariums are to be the means of enlightening those who come
to them for treatment. The patients are to be shown how they can live upon a
diet of grains, fruits, nuts, and other products of the soil. I have been
instructed that lectures should be regularly given in our sanitariums on health
topics. People are to be taught to discard those articles of food that weaken
the health and strength of the beings for whom Christ gave His life. The
injurious effects of tea and coffee are to be shown. The patients are to be
taught how they can dispense with those articles of diet that injure the
digestive organs. . . . Let the patients be shown the necessity of practicing
the principles of health reform, if they would regain their health. Let the
sick be shown how to get well by being temperate in eating and by taking
regular exercise in the open air. . . . By the work of our sanitariums,
suffering is to be relieved and health restored.
445
People are to be taught how, by carefulness in eating and drinking, they may
keep well. . . . Abstinence from flesh meat will benefit those who abstain. The
diet question is a subject of living interest. . . . Our sanitariums are
established for a special purpose, to teach people that we do not live to eat,
but that we eat to live. {CD 444.2}
Educate Patients in Home Nursing
Letter 204, 1906
768. Keep the patients out of doors as much as possible, and give them
cheering, happy talks in the parlor, with simple reading and Bible 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. {CD 445.1}
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. {CD 445.2}
Temperance Instruction to Be Given
Letter 145, 1904
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. {CD 445.3}
(1905) M.H. 176, 177
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 conditions and unnatural
cravings,
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lays the foundation of the liquor habit. 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 cooperate with God by obedience to His laws, both moral
and physical. {CD 445.4}
Comprehensive Nature of Reform Required
MS 1, 1888
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 of God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God." {CD 446.1}
Our health institutions are established to present the living
principles of a clean, pure, healthful diet. The knowledge must be imparted in
regard to self-denial, self-control. Jesus, who made man and redeemed man, is
to be held up before all who shall come to our institutions. The knowledge of
the way of life, peace, health, must be given line upon line, precept upon
precept, that men and women may see the need of reform. They must be led to
renounce the debasing customs and practices which existed in Sodom and in the
antediluvian world, which God destroyed because of their iniquity. (Matt.
24:37-39.) . . . {CD 446.2}
All who shall visit our health institutions are to be educated. The
plan of redemption should be brought before all, high and low, rich and poor.
Carefully prepared instruction is to be given, that indulgence in fashionable
intemperance in eating and drinking may be seen as the cause of disease and
suffering and of evil practices that follow as a result.
[HOW TO BRING ABOUT REFORMS IN DIET--426]
447
{CD 446.3}
Leaves From the Tree of Life
(1909) 9T 168
772. I have been instructed that we are not to delay to do the work
that needs to be done in health reform lines. Through this work we are to reach
souls in the highways and byways. I have been given special light that in our
sanitariums many souls will receive and obey present truth. In these
institutions men and women are to be taught how to care for their own bodies,
and at the same time how to become sound in the faith. They are to be taught
what is meant by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of God.
Said Christ, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are
life." John 6:63. {CD 447.1}
Our sanitariums are to be schools in which instruction shall be given
in medical missionary lines. They are to bring to sin-sick souls the leaves of
the tree of life, which will restore to them peace and hope and faith in Christ
Jesus. {CD 447.2}
Preparation for Prayer for Healing
(1905) M.H. 227, 228
773. It is labor lost to teach people to look to God as a healer of
their infirmities, unless they are taught also to lay aside unhealthful
practices. In order to receive His blessing in answer to prayer, they must
cease to do evil and learn to do well. Their surroundings must be sanitary,
their habits of life correct. They must live in harmony with the laws of God,
both natural and spiritual. {CD 447.3}
The Physician's Responsibility to Enlighten
His Patients
MS 22, 1887
774. The health institutions for the sick will be the best places to
educate the suffering ones to live in accordance with nature's law, and cease
their health-destroying practices in wrong habits in diet, in dress, that are
in accordance with the world's habits and customs, which are not at all after
God's order. They are doing a good work to enlighten our world. . . . {CD
447.4}
There is now positive need even with physicians, reformers in the line
of treatment of disease, that greater painstaking
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effort be made to carry forward and upward the work for themselves, and to
interestedly instruct those who look to them for medical skill to ascertain the
cause of their infirmities. They should call their attention in a special
manner to the laws which God has established, which cannot be violated with
impunity. They dwell much on the working of disease, but do not, as a general
rule, arouse the attention to the laws which must be sacredly and intelligently
obeyed to prevent disease. Especially if the physician has not been correct in
his dietetic practices, if his own appetite has not been restricted to a plain,
wholesome diet, in a large measure discarding the use of the flesh of dead
animals,--he loves meat, --he has educated and cultivated a taste for
unhealthful food. His ideas are narrow, and he will as soon educate and
discipline the taste and the appetite of his patients to love the things that
he loves, as to give them the sound principles of health reform. He will
prescribe for sick patients flesh, meat, when it is the very worst diet that
they can have; it stimulates, but does not give strength. They do not inquire
into their former habits of eating and drinking, and take special notice of
their erroneous habits which have been for many years laying the foundation of
disease. {CD 447.5}
Conscientious physicians should be prepared to enlighten those who are
ignorant, and should with wisdom make out their prescriptions, prohibiting
those things in their diet which they know to be erroneous. They should plainly
state the things which they regard as detrimental to the laws of health, and
leave these suffering ones to work conscientiously to do those things for
themselves which they can do, and thus place themselves in right relation to
the laws of life and health.
[DUTY OF PHYSICIANS AND HELPERS TO EDUCATE THEIR OWN TASTES --20]
[THE PHYSICIAN'S RESPONSIBILITY TO EDUCATE BY PEN AND VOICE IN
HEALTHFUL COOKERY--382]
[PATIENTS AT HEALTH RETREAT TO BE EDUCATED AWAY FROM A FLESH DIET--720]
{CD 448.1}
A Solemn Charge
(1902) 7T 74, 75
775. When a physician sees that a patient is suffering from an ailment
caused by improper eating and drinking, yet
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neglects to tell him of this, and to point out the need of reform, he is doing
a fellow being an injury. Drunkards, maniacs, those who are given over to
licentiousness,--all appeal to the physician to declare clearly and distinctly
that suffering is the result of sin. We have received great light on health
reform. Why, then, are we not more decidedly in earnest in striving to
counteract the causes that produce disease? Seeing the continual conflict with
pain, laboring constantly to alleviate suffering, how can our physicians hold
their peace? Can they refrain from lifting the voice in warning? Are they
benevolent and merciful if they do not teach strict temperance as a remedy for
disease? {CD 448.2}
Moral Courage Required by Diet Reformers
[C.T.B.H. 121] (1890) C.H. 451, 452
776. A great amount of good can be done by enlightening all to whom we
have access, as to the best means, not only of curing the sick, but of
preventing disease and suffering. The physician who endeavors to enlighten his
patients as to the nature and causes of their maladies and to teach them how to
avoid disease, may have uphill work; but if he is a conscientious reformer, he
will talk plainly of the ruinous effects 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. {CD 449.1}
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.
450
{CD 449.2}
Cooperation of Sanitariums and Schools
Letter 82, 1908
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.
{CD 450.1}
This blending of our schools and sanitariums will prove an advantage in
many ways. Through the instruction given by the sanitarium, students will learn
how to avoid forming careless, intemperate habits in eating. {CD 450.2}
In Evangelistic Work and City Missions
(1909) 9T 112
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 evangelistic work. But
such make a great mistake. God's word declares, "Whether therefore ye eat, or
drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10:31. The
subject of temperance in all its bearings, has an important place in the work
of salvation. {CD 450.3}
In connection with our city missions there should be suitable rooms
where those in whom an interest has been awakened can be gathered for
instruction. This necessary work is not to be carried on in such a meager way
that an unfavorable impression will be made on the minds of the people. All
that is done should bear favorable witness to the Author of truth, and should
properly represent the sacredness and importance of the truths of the third
angel's message.
451
{CD 450.4}
[C.T.B.H. 117] (1890) C.H. 449,450
779. In all our missions, women of intelligence should have charge of
the domestic arrangements,--women who know how to prepare food nicely and
healthfully. The table should be abundantly supplied with food of the best
quality. If any have a perverted taste that craves tea, coffee, condiments, and
unhealthful dishes, enlighten them. Seek to arouse the conscience. Set before
them the principles of the Bible upon hygiene. {CD 451.1}
Let Ministers Teach Reform Principles
[C.T.B.H. 117] (1890) C.H. 449
780. We should educate ourselves, not only to live in harmony with the
laws of health, but to teach others the better way. Many, even of those who
profess to believe the special truths for this time, are lamentably ignorant
with regard to health and temperance. They need to be educated, line upon line,
precept upon precept. The subject must be kept fresh before them. This matter
must not be passed over as non-essential; for nearly every family needs to be
stirred up on the question. The conscience must be aroused to the duty of
practicing the principles of true reform. God requires that His people shall be
temperate in all things. Unless they practice true temperance, they will not,
they cannot, be susceptible to the sanctifying influence of the truth. {CD
451.2}
Our ministers should become intelligent upon this question. They should
not ignore it, nor be turned aside by those who call them extremists. Let them
find out what constitutes true health reform, and teach its principles, both by
precept and by a quiet, consistent example. At our large gatherings,
instruction should be given upon health and temperance. Seek to arouse the
intellect and the conscience. Bring into service all the talent at command, and
follow up the work with publications upon the subject. "Educate, educate,
educate," is the message that has been impressed upon me. {CD 451.3}
(1900) 6T 112
781. As we near the close of time, we must rise higher and still higher
upon the question of health reform and
452
Christian temperance, presenting it in a more positive and decided manner. We
must strive continually to educate the people, not only by our words, but by
our practice. Precept and practice combined have a telling influence. {CD
451.4}
Appeal to Ministers, Conference Presidents,
and Other Leaders
(1900) 6T 376-378
782. Our ministers should become intelligent on health reform. They
need to become acquainted with physiology and hygiene; they should understand
the laws that govern physical life, and their bearing upon the health of mind
and soul. {CD 452.1}
Thousands upon thousands know little of the wonderful body God has
given them or of the care it should receive; and they consider it of more
importance to study subjects of far less consequence. The ministers have a work
to do here. When they take a right position on this subject, much will be
gained. In their own lives and homes they should obey the laws of life,
practicing right principles and living healthfully. Then they will be able to
speak correctly on this subject, leading the people higher and still higher in
the work of reform. Living in the light themselves, they can bear a message of
great value to those who are in need of just such a testimony. {CD 452.2}
There are precious blessings and a rich experience to be gained if
ministers will combine the presentation of the health question with all their
labors in the churches. The people must have the light on health reform. This
work has been neglected, and many are ready to die because they need the light
which they ought to have and must have before they will give up selfish
indulgence. {CD 452.3}
The presidents of our conferences need to realize that it is high time
they were placing themselves on the right side of this question. Ministers and
teachers are to give to others the light they have received. Their work in
every line is needed. God will help them; He will strengthen His servants
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who stand firmly, and will not be swayed from truth and righteousness in order
to accommodate self-indulgence. {CD 452.4}
The work of educating in medical missionary lines is an advance step of
great importance in awakening man to his moral responsibilities. Had the
ministers taken hold of this work in its various departments in accordance with
the light which God has given, there would have been a most decided reformation
in eating, drinking, and dressing. But some have stood directly in the way of
the advance of health reform. They have held the people back by their
indifferent or condemnatory remarks, or by pleasantries and jokes. They
themselves and a large number of others have been sufferers unto death, but all
have not yet learned wisdom. {CD 453.1}
It has been only by the most aggressive warfare that any advancement
has been made. The people have been unwilling to deny self, unwilling to yield
the mind and will to the will of God; and in their own sufferings, and in their
influence on others, they have realized the sure result of such a course. {CD
453.2}
The church is making history. Every day is a battle and a march. On
every side we are beset by invisible foes, and we either conquer through the
grace given us by God or we are conquered. I urge that those who are taking a
neutral position in regard to health reform be converted. This light is
precious, and the Lord gives me the message to urge that all who bear
responsibilities in any line in the work of God take heed that truth is in the
ascendancy in the heart and life. Only thus can any meet the temptations they
are sure to encounter in the world. {CD 453.3}
Failure to Practice Health Reform Disqualifies
For the Ministry
Why do some of our ministering brethren manifest so little interest in
health reform? It is because instruction on temperance in all things is opposed
to their practice of self-indulgence. In some places this has been the great
stumbling block in the way of our bringing the people to investigate and
practice and teach health reform. No man should be set apart as a teacher of
the people while his own teaching
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or example contradicts the testimony God has given His servants to bear in
regard to diet, for this will bring confusion. His disregard of health reform
unfits him to stand as the Lord's messenger. {CD 453.4}
The light that the Lord has given on this subject in His word is plain,
and men will be tested and tried in many ways to see if they will heed it.
Every church, every family, needs to be instructed in regard to Christian
temperance. All should know how to eat and drink in order to preserve health.
We are amid the closing scenes of this world's history; and there should be
harmonious action in the ranks of Sabbathkeepers. Those who stand aloof from
the great work of instructing the people upon this question, do not follow
where the Great Physician leads the way. "If any man will come after Me,"
Christ said, "let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me."
Matt. 16:24. {CD 454.1}
Health Education in the Home
(1905) M.H. 386
783. Parents should live more for their children, and less for society.
Study health subjects, and put your knowledge to a practical use. Teach your
children to reason from cause to effect. Teach them that if they desire health
and happiness, they must obey the laws of nature. Though you may not see so
rapid improvement as you desire, be not discouraged, but patiently and
perseveringly continue your work. {CD 454.2}
Teach your children from the cradle to practice self-denial and
self-control. Teach them to enjoy the beauties of nature, and in useful
employments to exercise systematically all the powers of body and mind. Bring
them up to have sound constitutions and good morals, to have sunny dispositions
and sweet tempers. Impress upon their tender minds the truth that God does not
design that we should live for present gratification merely, but for our
ultimate good. Teach them that to yield to temptation is weak and wicked; to
resist, noble and manly. These lessons will be as seed sown in good soil, and
they will bear fruit that will make your hearts glad.
455
{CD 454.3}
God's Work Hindered by Selfish Indulgence
(1900) 6T 370, 371
784. There is a message regarding health reform to be borne in every
church. There is a work to be done in every school. Neither principal nor
teachers should be entrusted with the education of the youth until they have a
practical knowledge of this subject. Some have felt at liberty to criticize and
question and find fault with health reform principles of which they know little
by experience. They should stand shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, with
those who are working in right lines. {CD 455.1}
The subject of health reform has been presented in the churches; but
the light has not been heartily received. The selfish, health-destroying
indulgences of men and women have counteracted the influence of the message
that is to prepare a people for the great day of God. If the churches expect
strength, they must live the truth which God has given them. If the members of
our churches disregard the light on this subject, they will reap the sure
result in both spiritual and physical degeneracy. And the influence of these
older church members will leaven those newly come to the faith. The Lord does
not now work to bring many souls into the truth, because of the church members
who have never been converted, and those who were once converted, but who have
backslidden. What influence would these unconsecrated members have on new
converts? Would they not make of no effect the God-given message which His
people are to bear? {CD 455.2}
Every Member to Impart Truth
(1902) 7T 62
785. We have come to a time when every member of the church should take
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