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Table of ContentsPART 1 - PRINCIPLES OF GODS HEALING PROGRAM ......................................................................................................1

GODS ORIGINAL PLAN FORHEALTH ................................................................................................................................................1DISOBEDIENCE SEPARATED ADAM AND EVE FROM GOD.................................................................................................................2

PART 2 - RESTORATION TO GOD................................................................................................................................................3

GODS PLAN FORRESTORATION OF HEALTH.....................................................................................................................................5GENERAL CAUSES OF SICKNESS .........................................................................................................................................................5DIET FROM THE BIBLE.........................................................................................................................................................................6GODS PLAN FORUS TODAY ..............................................................................................................................................................7

PART 3 - SHARING GODS HEALING PROGRAM.................................................................................................................15

METHODS TO BE USED .....................................................................................................................................................................16CAUTIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................18RESULTS.............................................................................................................................................................................................19

PART 4 - GOD DOES NOT ALWAYS CHOOSE TO HEAL....................................................................................................20DIFFERENT PURPOSES OF SUFFERING...............................................................................................................................................20OURATTITUDE TOWARD SUFFERING...............................................................................................................................................22

PART 5 - COUNTERFEIT MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORKA TEST.............................................................................23

INVASION OF SPIRITUALISM..............................................................................................................................................................23SATANS GROUND .............................................................................................................................................................................24GUIDELINES FORANY SYSTEM OF HEALING, ORANYNEW REMEDIAL AGENT:.........................................................................24

PART 6 - NEW AGE-OLD LIE .......................................................................................................................................................25

FOURTYPES OF INVOLVEMENT........................................................................................................................................................25NEW AGE HOLISTIC HEALTH............................................................................................................................................................26NEW AGE TECHNIQUES.....................................................................................................................................................................28

PART 1 - PRINCIPLES OF GODS HEALING PROGRAM

Creation Of Mankind (Genesis 1:27)

1 Bible Commentary, p. 1081. Human beings were a new and distinct order. They were made in the image of

God, and it was the Creators design that they should populate the earth.

Education, p. 15. When Adam came from the Creators hand, he bore, in his physical, mental, and spiritual nature, a

likeness to His Maker....it was His purpose that the longer man lived, the more fully he should reveal this imagethe

more fully reflect the glory of the Creator. All his faculties were capable of development; their capacity and vigor

were continually to increase.

Nutrition (Genesis 1:29)

8 Testimonies, p. 288. The fruit of the tree of life in the Garden of Eden possessed supernatural virtue. To eat of

it was to live forever. Its fruit was the antidote of death. Its leaves were for the sustaining of life and

immortality.

Exercise (Genesis 2:15)

Health Reformer, May 1, 1873. Exercise in useful labor will be carrying out the original plan of God, when he

bade Adam and Eve to dress the garden.

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Water (Genesis 2:10)

1 Spirit of Prophecy, p. 339. As angels presented to Moses a panoramic view of the land of promise, he could

take in the whole scene, and appreciate with almost divine clearness its magnificence. It was as a second Eden,

abounding in fruit trees of almost every variety, and very beautiful ornamental trees and flowers. There were

goodly cities, with brooks and springs of water.

8 Testimonies p, 309. {Section The Essential Knowledge} We have an abundance of that which is real, that

which is divine. Those who thirst for knowledge need not go to polluted fountains. Christ presented the principles

of truth in the gospel. In His teaching we may drink of the pure streams that flow from the throne of God.

Sunshine (Genesis 1:16)

Child Guidance, p. 45. The book of nature, which spread its living lessons before them, afforded an exhaustless

source of instruction and delight. On every leaf of the forest and stone of the mountains, in every shining star, in

earth and sea and sky, God's name was written. With both the animate and the inanimate creation--with leaf and

flower and tree, and with every living creature, from the leviathan of the waters to the mote in the sunbeam--the

dwellers in Eden held converse, gathering from each the secrets of its life.

Temperance (Genesis 2:16, 17)Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 70. Adam and Eve fell through intemperate appetite. Christ came and withstood

the fiercest temptation of Satan, and, in behalf of the race, overcame appetite, showing that man may overcome.

As Adam fell through appetite, and lost blissful Eden, the children of Adam may, through Christ, overcome

appetite, and through temperance in all things regain Eden.

Air (Genesis 1:20)

Adventist Home, p. 27. God is a lover of the beautiful. He has given us unmistakable evidence of this in the work

of His hands. He planted for our first parents a beautiful garden in Eden. Stately trees were caused to grow out of

the ground, of every description, for usefulness and ornament. The beautiful flowers were formed, of rare

loveliness, of every tint and hue, perfuming the air. . . It was the design of God that man should find happiness in

the employment of tending the things He had created, and that his wants should be met with the fruits of the trees

of the garden.

Rest (Genesis 2:3)

The Faith I Live By, p. 31. After resting upon the seventh day, God sanctified it, or set it apart, as a day of rest

for man. Following the example of the Creator, man was to rest upon this sacred day, that as he should look upon

the heavens and the earth, he might reflect upon God's great work of creation; and that as he should behold the

evidences of God's wisdom and goodness, his heart might be filled with love and reverence for his Maker

Trust in God (Genesis 3:3, 4)

6 Testimonies, p. 386. The Lord created every tree in Eden pleasant to the eyes and good for food, and He bade

Adam and Eve freely enjoy His bounties. But He made one exception. Of the tree of knowledge of good and evil

they were not to eat. This tree God reserved as a constant reminder of His ownership of all. Thus He gave them

opportunity to demonstrate their faith and trust in Him by their perfect obedience to His requirements.

Genesis 3:6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a

tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with

her; and he did eat.

Christ Triumphant, p. 289. Adam and Eve were placed on trial and failed. . . . Satan deceived Eve, and she

disobeyed God. The holy pair, not resisting temptation, were brought under Satans jurisdiction. The enemy gained

supremacy over the human race, bringing in death, the penalty of disobedience.

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Education, p. 25. It was grateful to the taste, and, as she ate, she seemed to feel a vivifying power, and imagined

herself entering upon a higher state of existence. Having herself transgressed, she became a tempter to her husband,

and he did eat.

8 Testimonies, p. 290. Having lost his place in heaven, Satan presented his temptations to our first parents. Adam

and Eve yielded to the enemy, and by their disobedience humanity was estranged from God, and the earth was

separated from heaven....If Adam and Eve had never touched the forbidden tree, the Lord would have imparted to

them knowledge, knowledge upon which rested no curse of sin, knowledge that would have brought them everlasting

joy. All that they gained by their disobedience was an acquaintance with sin and its results.

Testimony to Ministers, p. 133. "So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden

cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." Man was dependent

upon the tree of life for immortality, and the Lord took these precautions lest men should eat of that tree "and live

forever"--become immortal sinners.

PART 2 - RESTORATION TO GOD

Sacrifice Of Christ (Ephesians 5:2)

8 Testimonies, p. 288. After the entrance of sin the heavenly Husbandman transplanted the tree of life to the

paradise above; but its branches hang over the wall to the lower world. Through the redemption purchased by the

blood of Christ, we may still eat of its life-giving fruit.

Repentance (Luke 13:3; Acts 3:19)

Obedience (disobedience separated us; obedience brings us back) (Read John 14:15; 15:10)

My Life Today, p. 100. There is but one power that can bring us into conformity to the likeness of Christ, that can

make us steadfast and keep us constant. It is the grace of God that comes to us through obedience to the law of God.

3 Testimonies, p. 164. Our first duty, one which we owe to God, to ourselves, and to our fellow men, is to obey the

laws of God, which include the laws of health.

1 Corinthians 10:31. Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Exodus 15:26. If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in

his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee,

which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

Physical Health Affects Mental And Spiritual Health

1 Corinthians 3:16 (KJV.) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

In Heavenly Places, p. 191. Our bodies are Christ's purchased possession, and we are not at liberty to do with themas we please. . . . When men and women are truly converted they will conscientiously regard the laws of life that God

has established in their being, thus seeking to avoid physical, mental, and moral feebleness.

My Life Today, p. 141. The better you observe the laws of health, the more clearly can you discern temptations, and

resist them, and the more clearly can you discern the value of eternal things.

Ministry of Healing, p. 130. The body is the only medium through which the mind and the soul are developed for

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Reflecting Christ, p. 137. Since the mind and the soul find expression through the body, both mental and spiritual

vigor are in great degree dependent upon physical strength and activity; whatever promotes physical health promotes

the development of a strong mind and a well-balanced character. Without health, no one can as distinctly understand

or as completely fulfill his obligations to himself, to his fellow beings, or to his Creator. Therefore the health should

be as faithfully guarded as the character.

Getting To Know God

Child Guidance, p. 50. His [Jesus'] education was gained from Heaven-appointed sources, from useful work, from

the study of the Scriptures, from nature, and from the experiences of lifeGod's lesson books, full of instruction to

all who bring to them the willing hand, the seeing eye, and the understanding heart.

Gods Word

Counsels on Sabbath School Work. The neglect of the word means starvation to the soul. The word describes the

blessed man as one meditating day and night upon the truths of God's word. We all are to feast upon the word of God.

The relation of the word to the believer is a vital matter. Appropriating the word to our spiritual necessities is the

eating of the leaves of the tree of life that are for the healing of the nations. Study the word, and practice the word, for

it is your life. -- Ellen G. White Letter 4, 1902.

That I Might Know Him, p. 172. We must see the beauty, the light of God's Word for ourselves, and kindle our taper

at the divine altar, that we may go to the world, holding forth the Word of life as a bright, shining lamp.

Nature

Child Guidance, p. 534. Teach the children to see Christ in nature. Take them out into the open air, under the noble

trees, into the garden; and in all the wonderful works of creation teach them to see an expression of His love. Teach

them that He made the laws which govern all living things, that He has made laws for us, and that these laws are for

our happiness and joy. Do not weary them with long prayers and tedious exhortations, but through nature's object

lessons teach them obedience to the law of God.

Christs Object Lessons, p. 24. In itself the beauty of nature leads the soul away from sin and worldly attractions,

and toward purity, peace, and God.

Christian Education, p. 64. Through the volume of inspiration and the book of nature, we are to obtain a knowledge

of God.

Medical Ministry, p. 234. The leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the believing, repenting children of

God who avail themselves of the blessing to be found in tree and shrub and flower, even marred as nature is by the

curse.

Experiences of Life

Christs Object Lessons, p. 24. Through nature and the experiences of life, men were taught of God.

Romans 1:20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by

the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Useful Labor

Adventist Home, p. 144. Christ has linked His teaching, not only with the day of rest, but with the week of toil. . . .

In the plowing and sowing, the tilling and reaping, He teaches us to see an illustration of His work of grace in the

heart. So in every line of useful labor and every association of life, He desires us to find a lesson of divine truth. Then

our daily toil will no longer absorb our attention and lead us to forget God; it will continually remind us of our

Creator and Redeemer. The thought of God will run like a thread of gold through all our homely cares and

occupations. For us the glory of His face will again rest upon the face of nature. We shall ever be learning new

lessons of heavenly truth and growing into the image of His purity.


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Ministry of Healing, p. 127. In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be

changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish

right conditions in the system.

Ascertain the Cause

Proverbs 26:2 (KJV). As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Adventist Home, p. 22. Sickness does not come without a cause.

Education, p. 146. Terrible is this truth, and deeply should it be impressed. Every deed reacts upon the doer. Never

a human being but may recognize, in the evils that curse his life, fruitage of his own sowing. Yet even thus we are

not without hope.

Deuteronomy 28:58-61

Ministry of Healing, p. 127. Let physicians teach the people that restorative power is not in drugs, but in nature.Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health. In

case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected.

Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.

3 Testimonies, p. 161. All our enjoyment or suffering may be traced to obedience or transgression of natural law.

Primary Cause: Sin

Secondary Causes: microorganisms, munitions of war, accidents, degeneracy, weather, environmental poisons,

malnutrition, animals, drugs, unhealthful dress, poor cooking, secret vice, decreased water inside and outside,

imagination, meat eating, fear, and others

Disobedience

6 Testimonies, p. 224. The human family is suffering because of transgression of the laws of God. The Lord

desires that men shall be led to understand the cause of their suffering and the only way to find relief. He desires

them to see that their well-being,physical, mental, and moral,depends upon their obedience to His laws.

Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 306. It is inevitable that children should suffer from the consequences of parental

wrong-doing, but they are not punished for the parents guilt, except as they participate in their sins. It is usually

the case, however, that children walk in the steps of their parents. By inheritance and example the sons become

partakers of the fathers sin. Wrong tendencies, perverted appetites, and debased morals, as well as physical

disease and degeneracy, are transmitted as a legacy from father to son, to the third and fourth generation. This

fearful truth should have a solemn power to restrain men from following a course of sin.

Read Exodus 20:5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am ajealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that

hate me;

Imagination

Counsels on Health, p. 344. Disease is sometimes produced, and is often greatly aggravated, by the imagination.

Many are lifelong invalids who might be well if they only thought so. Many imagine that every slight exposure

will cause illness, and the evil effect is produced because it is expected. Many die from disease, the cause of

which is wholly imaginary.

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Counsels on Health, p. 324. Satan is the originator of disease, and the physician is warring against his work and

power. Sickness of the mind prevails everywhere. Nine tenths of the diseases from which men suffer have their

foundation here. Perhaps some living home trouble is, like a canker, eating to the very soul and weakening the life

forces. Remorse for sin sometimes undermines the constitution and unbalances the mind.

Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, p. 383. By fostering a love for mere amusement, the reading of

fiction creates a distaste for life's practical duties. Through its exciting, intoxicating power it is not infrequently a

cause of both mental and physical disease.

4 Testimonies, p. 60. The sympathy which exists between the mind and the body is very great; when one is

affected, the other responds.

Lack of Will-Power

Health Reformer, January 1, 1871. Sickness is very largely the want of will. Everything is brain. There are

thought and feeling, not only, but will; and will includes in it far more than mental philosophers think. It acts

universally; now upon the mind, and then just as much upon the body. It is another name for life-force. Men in

whom this life, or will-power, is great, resist disease, and combat it when attacked. To array a mans mind against

his sickness, is the supreme art of medicine. Inspire in man courage and purpose, and the mind-power will castout disease.

Use Gods Natural Remedies

5 Testimonies, p. 443. There are many ways of practicing the healing art, but there is only one way that Heaven

approves. Gods remedies are the simple agencies of nature that will not tax or debilitate the system through their

powerful properties. Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are

remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful

use requires work that the people do not appreciate. Fresh air, exercise, pure water, and clean, sweet premises are

within the reach of all with but little expense

Desire of Ages, p. 824. In the Saviours manner of healing there were lessons for His disciples. On one occasion

He anointed the eyes of a blind man with clay, and bade him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam....He went his way

therefore, and washed, and came seeing. John 9:7 the cure could be wrought only by the power of the GreatHealer, yet Christ made use of the simple agencies of nature. While He did not give countenance to drug

medication, He sanctioned the use of simple and natural remedies.

Medical Ministry, p. 231. By the influence of the quickening, reviving, life-giving properties of natures great

medicinal resources, the functions of the body are strengthened, the intellect awakened, the imagination

quickened, the spirits enlivened. The mind is prepared to appreciate the beauties of Gods word.

Medical Ministry, p. 224. If the sick and suffering will do only as well as they know in regard to living out the

principles of health reform perseveringly, then they will in nine cases out of ten recover from their ailments.

God gave Adam and Eve fruits and grains to eat (Genesis 1:29)

After sin entered he added vegetables to their diet (Genesis 3:18)

After the flood God allowed clean meat to be eaten (Genesis 7:2; 9:3)

On the exodus from Egypt to Canaan, the promised land, God gave them manna to eat (Exodus 16:35)

Results of the desire or lust for flesh meat (Numbers 11:4,5, 31-34)

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Blood and fat of animals are prohibited (Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 3:17; 7:23)

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 373. After the flood the people ate largely of animal food. God saw that the ways of

man were corrupt, and that he was disposed to exalt himself proudly against his Creator and to follow the inclinations

of his own heart. And He permitted that long-lived race to eat animal food to shorten their sinful lives. Soon after the

flood the race began to rapidly decrease in size, and in length of years.

Effects of meat eating on life span:

Before eating flesh After eating flesh

Name Age Age Name

Adam 930 600 Shem

Seth 912 438 Arphaxad

Enos 905 433 Salah

Cainan 910 464 Eber

Mahalaleel 895 239 Peleg

Jared 962 239 Rue

Enoch 365 230 Serug

Methuselah 969 148 NahorLamech 777 205 Terah

Noah 950 175 Abraham

Noah, the tenth generation, lived 20 years longer than Adam; the eighth generation lived 39 years

longer than Adam; Shem was brought up on a vegetarian diet and lived to a fair age; but the second

generation after the Flooddropped to 438 years; and the eighth generation, instead of being the longest as before the

Flood, was the shortest, only 148 years.

(Chart and comment fromBible Handbookby S. N. Haskell, pages 154-155, andThe Medical Missionary Manual

compiled by Vance Ferrell)

Our Diet in Heaven (Isaiah 65:21, 25)

Nutrition

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 81. Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by our

Creator. . . They impart a strength, a power of endurance, and a vigor of intellect that are not afforded by a more

complex and stimulating diet.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 384. Flesh was never the best food; but its use is now doubly objectionable,

since disease in animals is so rapidly increasing.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 386. The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat eating.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 388. Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely caused by meateating. From the light God has given me, the prevalence of cancer and tumors is largely due to gross living on

dead flesh.

Ministry of Healing, p. 314. In many places fish become so contaminated by the filth on which they feed as to be

a cause of disease. This is especially the case where the fish come in contact with the sewage of large cities. The

fish that are fed on the contents of the drains may pass into distant waters and may be caught where the water is

pure and fresh. Thus when used as food they bring disease and death on those who do not suspect the danger.

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Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 395. The more largely flesh composes the diet of teachers and pupils, the less

susceptible will be the mind to comprehend spiritual things. The animal propensities are strengthened, and the

fine sensibilities of the mind are blunted.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 384. The light given me is that it will not be very long before we shall have to

give up using any animal food. Even milk will have to be discarded. Disease is accumulating rapidly. The curse

of God is upon the earth, because man has cursed it. The habits and practices of men have brought the earth into

such a condition that some other food than animal food must be substituted for the human family. We do not need

flesh food at all. God can give us something else.

Ministry of Healing, p. 316. When flesh food is discarded, its place should be supplied with a variety of grains,

nuts, vegetables, and fruits that will be both nourishing and appetizing. This is especially necessary in the case of

those who are weak or who are taxed with continuous labor. In some countries where poverty abounds, flesh is the

cheapest food. Under these circumstances the change will be made with greater difficulty; but it can be effected.

We should, however, consider the situation of the people and the power of lifelong habit, and should be careful

not to urge even right ideas unduly. None should be urged to make the change abruptly. The place of meat should

be supplied with wholesome foods that are inexpensive. In this matter very much depends on the cook. With care

and skill, dishes may be prepared that will be both nutritious and appetizing, and will, to a great degree, take theplace of flesh food.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 74. The health reform, I was shown, is a part of the third angels message, and is

just as closely connected with it as are the arm and hand with the human body. I saw that we as a people must

make an advance move in this great work. Ministers and people must act in concert. Gods people are not

prepared for the loud cry of the third angel. They have a work to do for themselves which they should not leave

for God to do for them. He has left this work for them to do. It is an individual work; one cannot do it for

another.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p.382. 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 ofmeat eating will go from Gods people to walk no more with them.

Exercise

Medical Ministry, p. 297. If those who are sick would exercise their muscles daily, women as well as men, in

outdoor work, using brain, bone, and muscle proportionately, weakness and languor would disappear. Health

would take the place of disease, and strength the place of feebleness.

Counsels on Temperance and Bible Hygiene, p. 96. A life of useful labor is indispensable to the physical,

mental, and moral well-being of man.

Counsels on Temperance and Bible Hygiene, p. 100. Physical exercise in the direction of useful labor has a

happy influence upon the mind, strengthens the muscles, improves the circulation. . .

2 Mind Character and Personality, p. 646. Amusements excite the mind, but depression is sure to follow. Useful

labor and physical exercise will have a more healthful influence upon the mind and will strengthen the muscles,

improve the circulation, and will prove a powerful agent in the recovery of health.

My Life Today, p. 144. Mental effort without corresponding physical exercise calls an undue proportion of blood

to the brain, and thus the circulation is unbalanced. The brain has too much blood, while the extremities have too

little. The hours of study and recreation should be carefully regulated, and a portion of the time should be spent in

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4 Testimonies, p. 96. The reason the youth have so little strength of brain and muscle is because they do so little

in the line of useful labor.

Counsels on Temperance and Bible Hygiene, p. 100. When the weather will permit, those who are engaged in

sedentary occupations, should, if possible, walk out in the open air every day, summer and winter. The clothing

should be suitable, and the feet well protected. Walking brings all the muscles into exercise. The lungs also are

forced into healthy action, since it is impossible to walk in the bracing air of a winter morning without inflating

them.

Healthful Living, p. 130. There is no exercise that will prove as beneficial to every part of the body as walking.

Active walking in the open air will do more for women, to preserve them in health if they are well, than any other

means. Walking is also one of the most efficient remedies for the recovery of health of the invalid. The hands and

arms are exercised as well as the limbs Morning exercise, in walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or

cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is necessary to a healthful circulation of the blood. It is the surest

safeguard against colds, coughs, congestions of the brain and lungs, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the

lungs, and a hundred other diseases.

Healthful Living, p. 131. God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity; for in this activityor motion is its preserving power.

Healthful Living, p. 131. By active exercise in the open air every day the liver, kidneys, and lungs also will be

strengthened to perform their work.

Healthful Living, p. 133. The diseased stomach will find relief by exercise.

Healthful Living, p. 133. Exercise is important to digestion, and to a healthy condition of body and mind.

Ministry of Healing, pp. 268-269. As physical health is regained, men and women are better able to exercise that

faith in Christ which secures the health of the soul.

WaterReview and Herald, December 5, 1899. Pure water to drink and fresh air to breathe, invigorate the vital

organs, purify the blood, and help nature in her task of overcoming the bad conditions of the system.

Review and Herald, July 29, 1884. Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 419. I should bathe frequently, and drink freely of pure, soft water.

Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, p. 51. If anything is needed to quench thirst, pure water is all that

nature requires.

Sunshine and Air

Adventist Home, p. 149. Dispense with heavy curtains, open the windows and the blinds, allow no vines,

however beautiful, to shade the windows, and permit no trees to stand so near the house as to shut out the

sunshine.

Adventist Home, p. 148. Neglect of proper ventilation is responsible for much of the drowsiness and dullness

that destroy the effect of many a sermon and make the teacher's work toilsome and ineffective.

Fundamentals of Christian Education, p. 73. And work performed in the open air is tenfold more beneficial to

health than in-door labor.


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Counsels on Health, p. 166. To the sick it is worth more than silver or gold to lie in the sunshine or in the shade

of the trees.

Bible Echo, February 23, 1903. By playing in the sunshine and the fresh air, children will gain health and

strength of mind and body. They will be benefited both spiritually and physically.

Healthful Living, p. 142. If all would appreciate the sunshine, and expose every article of clothing to its drying,

purifying rays, mildew and mold would be prevented.

Counsels on Health, p. 170. Outdoor life is the only medicine that many invalids need.

Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, p. 115. Parents, let the sunshine of love, cheer, and happy content

enter your own hearts, and let its sweet influence pervade the home. Manifest a kindly, forbearing spirit, and

encourage the same in your children The atmosphere thus created will be to the children what air and sunshine

are to the vegetable world, promoting health and vigor of mind and body.

Counsels on Health, p. 251. Out of doors, surrounded by the beautiful things that God has made, breathing the

fresh, health-giving air, the sick can best be told of the new life in Christ. Here God's words can be taught. Herethe sunshine of Christ's righteousness can shine into hearts darkened by sin.

Education, p. 197. Not only is He the originator of all, but He is the life of everything that lives. It is His life that

we receive in the sunshine, in the pure, sweet air, in the food which builds up our bodies and sustains our strength.

It is by His life that we exist, hour by hour, moment by moment. Except as perverted by sin, all His gifts tend to

life, to health and joy.

This Day With God, p. 129. Let the truth of God be to your soul as the sunshine and the vital air.

Temperance

Health Reformer, May 1, 1877. True temperance teaches us to abstain entirely from that which is injurious, and

to use judiciously only healthful and nutritious articles of food.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, pp. 62-63. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul, (1 Peter 2:11) is

the language of the apostle Peter. Many regard this warning as applicable only to the licentious; but it has a

broader meaning. It guards against every injurious gratification of appetite or passion. It is a most forcible

warning against the use of such stimulants and narcotics as tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, and morphine. These

indulgences may well be classed among the lusts that exert a pernicious influence upon moral character. The

earlier these hurtful habits are formed, the more firmly will they hold their victim in slavery to lust, and the more

certainly will they lower the standard of spirituality.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 435. We must abstain from any practice which will blunt the conscience or

encourage temptation. . . .What is needed in every community is firm purpose, and a will to touch not, taste not,

handle not; then the temperance reformation will be strong, permanent, and thorough

Rest

Christian Education, p. 124. In eating, drinking, and dressing, the laws of health should be diligently followed,

and in regulating the hours for sleep, there should be no haphazard work. No student should form the habit of

sitting up late at night to burn the midnight oil, and then take the hours of day for sleep. If they have been

accustomed to doing this at home, they should seek to correct their habits and go to rest at a seasonable hour, and

rise in the morning refreshed for the day's duties. In our schools the lights should be extinguished at half past

nine.

Daughters of God, p. 177. Make it [a] habit not to sit up after nine o'clock. Every light should be extinguished.

This turning night into day is a wretched, health-destroying habit, and this reading much by brain workers, up to


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the sleeping hours, is very injurious to health. It calls the blood to the brain and then there is restlessness and

wakefulness, and the precious sleep that should rest the body does not come when desired.

7 Manuscript Releases, p. 224. I know from the testimonies given me from time to time for brain workers, that

sleep is worth far more before than after midnight. Two hours' good sleep before twelve o'clock is worth more

than four hours after twelve o'clock. . . .

Trust in God

Ministry of Healing, p. 119. Gratitude and trust open the heart to the healing power of God, the energies of the

whole being are vitalized, and the life forces triumph.

Counsels on Health, p. 382. The human agent should have faith and should cooperate with the divine power,

using every facility, taking advantage of every thing that, according to his intelligence, is beneficial, working in

harmony with natural laws; and in doing this he neither denies nor hinders faith.

Desire of Ages, p. 471. It was evident that there was no healing virtue in the clay, or in the pool wherein the

blind man was sent to wash, but that the virtue was in Christ.

Ministry of Healing, p. 257. The consciousness of right-doing is one of the very best medicines for diseased

bodies and minds.

Counsels on Health, p. 28. The influence of the Spirit of God is the very best medicine for disease.

In addition to these Eight Natural Remedies God has given us herbs, charcoal, hydrotherapy, and massage to help

relieve suffering and restore heatlh.

Herbs

21 Manuscript Releases, p. 290. The Lord has given some simple herbs of the field that at times are beneficial;

and if every family were educated in how to use these herbs in case of sickness, much suffering might be

prevented, and no doctor need be called. These old fashioned simple herbs, used intelligently, would have

recovered many sick who have died under drug medication.

2 Selected Messages, p. 289. Our Saviour is the restorer of the moral image of God in man. He has supplied in

the natural world remedies for the ills of man, that His followers may have life and that they may have it more

abundantly. We can with safety discard the concoctions which man has used in the past. The Lord has provided

antidotes for diseases in simple plants, and these can be used by faith, with no denial of faith; for by using the

blessings provided by God for our benefit we are cooperating with Him. He can use water and sunshine and the

herbs which He has caused to grow, in healing maladies brought on by indiscretion or accident.

Charcoal

20 Manuscript Releases, p. 280. I send you at this time pulverized charcoal. Let him drink the water after it has

stood a while to extract the virtue. This should be cold when used. When used for fomentations over the bowels,

the coal should be put into a bag, sewed up, and dipped in hot water. It will serve several times. Have two bags;

use one and then the other.

2 Selected Messages, p. 294. One of the most beneficial remedies is pulverized charcoal, placed in a bag and

used in fomentations. This is a most successful remedy. . . .I have ordered this in cases where the sick were

suffering great pain, and when it has been confided to me by the physician that he thought it was the last before

the close of life. Then I suggested the charcoal, and the patient slept, the turning point came, and recovery was the

result. . . . The poison of inflammation was overcome, the pain removed, and healing went on rapidly. The most

severe inflammation of the eyes will be relieved by a poultice of charcoal, put in a bag, and dipped in hot or cold

water, as will best suit the case. This works like a charm.


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2 Selected Messages, p. 298. I will tell you a little about my experience with charcoal as a remedy. For some

forms of indigestion, it is more efficacious than drugs. A little olive oil into which some of this powder has been

stirred tends to cleanse and heal. I find it is excellent. Pulverized charcoal from eucalyptus wood we have used

freely in cases of inflammation....

2 Selected Messages, p. 299. For several days he has had a painful swelling on the knee, supposed to be from the

bite of some poisonous insect. Pulverized charcoal, mixed with flaxseed, was placed upon the swelling, and this

poultice gave relief at once. The child had screamed with pain all night, but when this was applied, he slept. Today

she has been to see the little one twice. She opened the swelling in two places, and a large amount of yellow

matter and blood was discharged freely. The child was relieved of its great suffering. We thank the Lord that we

may become intelligent in using the simple things within our reach to alleviate pain, and successfully remove its

cause.

Hyrdrotherapy

Counsels on Health, p. 169. The things of nature are God's blessings, provided to give health to body, mind, and

soul. They are given to the well to keep them well, and to the sick to make them well. Connected with water

treatment, they are more effective in restoring health than all the drug medication in the world.

Ministry of Healing, p. 146. All gospel workers should know how to give the simple treatments that do so much

to relieve pain and remove disease.

Ministry of Healing, p. 237. There are many ways in which water can be applied to relieve pain and check

disease. All should become intelligent in its use in simple home treatments. Mothers, especially, should know

how to care for their families in both health and sickness.

Medical Ministry, p. 227. Water treatments, wisely and skillfully given, may be the means of saving many

lives.

Massage

Paulson Collection, p. 15. Some matters have been deeply impressed upon my mind, and one is the necessity for

much better facilities in the bathrooms. This is where impressions will be made upon minds. We must haveconveniences in these rooms--massage tables, and a cot on which to give packs.

Other Special Counsels

2 Selected Messages, pp. 284, 285. It is our privilege to use every God-appointed means in correspondence with

our faith, and then trust in God, when we have urged the promise. If there is need of a surgical operation, and the

physician is willing to undertake the case, it is not a denial of faith to have the operation performed

Medical Ministry, pp. 286-287. There is one thing that has saved lifean infusion of blood from one person to

another; but this would be difficult and perhaps impossible for you to do. I merely suggest it.

D.E. Robinson in 2 Selected Messages, p. 303. You will be interested to know, however, that at a time when

there was an epidemic of small pox in the vicinity, she herself was vaccinated and urged her helpers, those

connected with her, to be vaccinated.

2 Selected Messages, p. 303. For several weeks I took treatment with the X-ray for the black spot that was on

my forehead. In all I took twenty-three treatments, and these succeeded in entirely removing the mark. For this I

am grateful.

Education is Important

Counsels on Health, pp. 37, 38. Men and women should inform themselves in regard to the philosophy of health.

The minds of rational beings seem shrouded in darkness in regard to their own physical structure, and how to

preserve it in a healthy condition. The present generation have trusted their bodies with the doctors and their souls


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with the ministers. Do they not pay the minister well for studying the bible for them, that they need not be to the

trouble? And is it not his business to tell them what they must believe, and to settle all doubtful questions of theology

without special investigation on their part? If they are sick, they send for the doctorbelieve whatever he may tell,

and swallow anything he may prescribe; for do they not pay him a liberal fee, and is it not his business to understand

their physical ailments, and what to prescribe to make them well, without their being troubled with the matter?...So

closely is health related to out happiness, that we cannot have the latter without the former. A practical knowledge of

the science of human life is necessary in order to glorify God in our bodies.

God Gives Supernatural Results

2 Selected Messages, p. 346. Natural means, used in accordance with God's will, bring about supernatural results.

We ask for a miracle, and the Lord directs the mind to some simple remedy. We ask to be kept from the pestilence

that walketh in darkness, that is stalking with such power through the world; we are then to cooperate with God,

observing the laws of health and life. Having done all that we possibly can, we are to keep asking in faith for health

and strength.

Medical Ministry, p. 12. The Lord promises, by the medium of truth, to renovate the soul. The Holy Spirit will make

all who are willing to be educated able to communicate the truth with power. It will renew every organ of the body,

that Gods servants may work acceptably and successfully. Vitality increases under the influence of the Spiritsaction.

Medical Ministry, p. 12. The sick are to be healed through the combined efforts of the human and the divine. Every

gift, every power, that Christ promised to His disciples, He bestows upon those who will serve Him faithfully.

1 Selected Messages, p. 382. When it is in the heart to obey God, when efforts are put forth to this end, Jesus

accepts this disposition and effort as mans best service, and He makes up for the deficiency with His own divine

merit. But He will not accept those who claim to have faith in Him, and yet are disloyal to His fathers

commandment. We hear a great deal about faith, but we need to hear a great deal more about works. Many are

deceiving their own souls by living an easy-going, accommodating, crossless religion. But Jesus says, if any man

will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (See Exodus 20:6.)

Ministry of Healing, p. 115. The love which Christ diffuses through the whole being is a vitalizing power. Everyvital part--the brain, the heart, the nerves--it touches with healing. By it the highest energies of the being are roused to

activity. It frees the soul from the guilt and sorrow, the anxiety and care, that crush the life forces. With it come

serenity and composure. It implants in the soul, joy that nothing earthly can destroy,--joy in the Holy Spirit,--health-

giving, life-giving joy.

Counsels Regarding Drugs

2 Selected Messages, p. 451. . . .[drugs] a foreign substance of a poisonous nature

2 Selected Messages, p. 281 [drugs] every poisonous preparation in the vegetable and mineral kingdoms

Temperance, p. 75. From beginning to end, the crime of tobacco using, of opium and drug medication, has its origin

in perverted knowledge. It is through plucking and eating of poisonous fruit, through the intricacies of names that the

common people do not understand, that thousands and ten thousands of lives are lost. This great knowledge,

supposed by men to be so wonderful, God did not mean that man should have. They are using the poisonous

productions that Satan himself has planted to take the place of the tree of life, whose leaves are for the healing of the

nations. Men are dealing in liquors and narcotics that are destroying the human family.

Medical Ministry, p. 223. Drugs always have a tendency to break down and destroy vital forces, and nature becomes

so crippled in her efforts that the invalid dies, not because he needed to die, but because nature was outraged.


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2 Selected Messages, p. 281. Drug medication, as it is generally practiced, is a curse. Educate away from drugs.

Use them less and less, and depend more upon hygienic agencies; then nature will respond to God's physicianspure

air, pure water, proper exercise, a clear conscience. . . .Drugs need seldom be used.

2 Selected Messages, pp. 283, 284. When you understand physiology in its truest sense, your drug bills will be very

much smaller, and finally you will cease to deal out drugs.

Medical Ministry, pp. 224, 225. Physicians should have wisdom and experience, and be thorough health reformers.

Then will they be constantly educating by precept and example their patients from drugs; for they well know that the

use of drugs may produce for the time being favorable results, but will implant in the system that which will cause

great difficulties hereafter, which they may never recover from during their lifetime.

Medical Ministry, p. 227. Drug medication is to be discarded. On this point the conscience of the physician must

ever be kept tender, and true, and clean. The inclination to use poisonous drugs, which kill if they do not cure, needs

to be guarded against.

Review and Herald, September 12, 1899. The endless variety of medicines in the market, the numerous

advertisements of new drugs and mixtures, all of which, they say, result in wonderful cures, kill hundreds where theybenefit one. . . . Some will have medicine at all events. Then let them take these hurtful mixtures, and the various

deadly poisons, upon their own responsibility. God's servants should not administer medicines, which they know will

leave behind injurious effects upon the system, even if they do relieve present suffering.

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 26. 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 recklessly 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.

Counsels on Health, p. 89. But in most cases the drug only changes the form and location of the disease.

2 Selected Messages, pp. 279, 280. Your questions, I will say, are answered largely, if not definitely, inHow to

Live. Drug poisons mean the articles which you have mentioned. The simpler remedies are less harmful in proportion

to their simplicity; but in very many cases these are used when not at all necessary. There are simple herbs and roots

that every family may use for themselves and need not call a physician any sooner than they would call a lawyer. I do

not think that I can give you any definite line of medicines compounded and dealt out by doctors, that are perfectly

harmless. And yet it would not be wisdom to engage in controversy over this subject. . . The practitioners are very

much in earnest in using their dangerous concoctions, and I am decidedly opposed to resorting to such things. They

never cure; they may change the difficulty to create a worse one. Many of those who practice the prescribing of

drugs, would not take the same or give them to their children. If they have an intelligent knowledge of the human

body, if they understand the delicate, wonderful human machinery, they must know that we are fearfully and

wonderfully made, and that not a particle of these strong drugs should be introduced into this human living organism.

. . . As the matter was laid open before me, and the sad burden of the result of drug medication, the light was given

me that Seventh-day Adventists should establish health institutions discarding all these health-destroying inventions,

and physicians should treat the sick upon hygienic principles. The great burden should be to have well-trained nurses,

and well-trained medical practitioners to educate "precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little and

there a little" (Isa. 28:10). . . .

People Want Quick Solutions

4 Spiritual Gifts, pp. 133, 134. The sufferers in such cases can do for themselves that which others cannot do as

well for them....But generally the persons who suffer pain become impatient. They are not willing to use self-denial,

and suffer a little from hunger. Neither are they willing to wait the slow process of nature to build up the overtaxed

energies of the system. But they are determined to obtain relief at once, and take powerful drugs, prescribed by


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physicians. Nature was doing her work well, and would have triumphed, but while accomplishing her task, a foreign

substance of a poisonous nature was introduced. What a mistake! Abused nature has now two evils to war against

instead of one. She leaves the work in which she was engaged, and resolutely takes hold to expel the intruder newly

introduced in the system. Nature feels this double draft upon her resources, and she becomes enfeebled.

Counsels on Health, p. 39. Those who transgress the laws of God in their organism will not be less slow to violate

the law of god spoken from Sinai.

PART 3 - SHARING GODS HEALING PROGRAM

Gospel Commission (Follow Jesus)

Matthew 4:23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the

kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 127. Especially should those who are medical missionaries manifest, in spirit, word, and

character, that they are following Christ Jesus, the divine Model of medical missionary effort.

(Matthew 10:1, 7, 8) Jesus commissioned His twelve disciples to follow His example.

(Luke 10:1, 9) Jesus sent out seventy missionaries and they were to follow His example.

(Mark 16:15-18) Jesus is sending us out to preach the gospel, following His example.

Love

Education, p. 114. Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal.

Desire of Ages, p. 825. The power of love was in all Christs healing, and only by partaking of that love, through

faith, can we be instruments for His work. If we neglect to link ourselves in divine connection with Christ, the

current of life-giving energy cannot flow in rich streams from us to the people.

Faith And Prayer

Ministry of Healing, p. 226. Christs servants are the channel of His working, and through them He desires to

exercise His healing power. It is our work to present the sick and suffering to God in the arms of our faith. We

should teach them to believe in the Great Healer....The Saviour would have us encourage the sick, the hopeless, the

afflicted, to take hold upon His strength. Through faith and prayer the sickroom may be transformed into a Bethel.

In word and deed, physicians and nurses may say, so plainly that it cannot be misunderstood, God is in this place to

save, and not to destroy. Christ desires to manifest His presence in the sickroom, filling the hearts of physicians and

nurses with the sweetness of His love. If the life of the attendants upon the sick is such that Christ can go with them

to the bedside of the patient, there will come to him the conviction that the compassionate Saviour is present, and this

conviction will itself do much for the healing of both the soul and the body.

Gods WordMinistry of Healing, p. 173. Open the Bible before the tempted, struggling one, and over and over again read to him

the promises of God. These promises will be to him as the leaves of the tree of life.

Education

2 Selected Messages, p. 280. Train the people to correct habits and healthful practices, remembering that an ounce

of preventive is of more value than a pound of cure. Lectures and studies in this line will prove of the highest value.

Education, p. 296. Something better is the watchword of education, the law of all true living. Whatever Christ asks

us to renounce, He offers in its stead something better.


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Subjects To Be Taught

1. Laws of Life, Temperance, Reform

Counsels on Health, p. 480. "True religion and the laws of health go hand in hand. It is impossible to work for the

salvation of men and women without presenting to them the need of breaking away from sinful gratifications,

which destroy the health, debase the soul, and prevent divine truth from impressing the mind. Men and women

must be taught to take a careful view of every habit and every practice, and at Once put away those things that

cause an unhealthy condition of the body, and thus cast a dark shadow over the mind Let those who have

obtained a knowledge of how to eat and drink and dress so as to preserve health, impart this knowledge to others."

Medical Ministry, p. 259. "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 God's blessing will rest upon every effort made to awaken an interest in health reform; for

it is needed everywhere. There must be a revival upon this subject; for God purposes to accomplish much through

this agency. Present temperance with all its advantages in reference to health. Educate people in the laws of life so

that they may know how to preserve health. The efforts actually put forth at present are not meeting the mind of

God. Drug medication is a curse to this enlightened age Educate away from drugs." MM 259

1. Home Reading Circles

Counsels on Health, p. 427. Fathers and mothers, obtain all the help you can from the study of our books and

publications. . . . Take time to read to your children from the health books, as well as from the books treating more

particularly on religious subjects. Teach them the importance of caring for the body--the house they live in. Form

a home reading circle, in which every member of the family shall lay aside the busy cares of the day and unite in

study. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, take up this work heartily, and see if the home church will not be greatly

improved.

2. Health Journals

7 Testimonies, p. 136. "Circulate the books that give instruction in regard to healthful living.

Counsels on Health, p. 479. "The people are in sad need of the light shining from the pages of our health books

and journals. God desires to use these books and journals as mediums through which flashes of light shall arrest

the attention of the people, and cause them to heed the warning of the message of the third angel. Our health

journals are instrumentalities in the field to do a special work in disseminating the light that the inhabitants of the

world must have in this day of God's preparation. They wield an untold influence in the interests of health and

temperance and social-purity reform, and will accomplish great good in presenting these subjects in a proper

manner and in their true light to the people."

Counsels on Health, p. 447. "Ministers can and should do much to urge the circulation of the health journals.

Every member of the church should work as earnestly for these journals as for our other periodicals. There should

be no friction between the two. Both are essential, and both should occupy the field at the same time. Each is the

complement of the other, and can in no wise take its place. The circulation of the health journals will be a

powerful agency in preparing the people to accept those special truths that are to fit them for the soon coming of

the Son of man."

Counsels on Health, p. 462. "Literature bearing on this point (temperance) is the helping hand of the gospel,

leading souls to search the Bible for a better understanding of the truth. The note of warning against the great evil

of intemperance should be sounded; and that this may be done, every Sabbath-keeper should study and practice

the instruction contained in our health periodicals and our health books"

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3. Health talks

6 Testimonies, p. 378. 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

Medical Ministry, p. 263. "The health talks which you give in the meetings will be one of the best ways of

advertising our sanitariums."

4. CanvassersCounsels on Health, p. 462. Canvassers should call the attention of those they visit to our health publications,

telling them of the valuable instruction these periodicals contain regarding the care of the sick and treatment of

diseases. Tell them this instruction, studied and practiced, will bring health to the family."

Counsels on Health, p. 466. "There should be more earnest efforts made to enlighten the people upon the great

subject of health reform. Tracts of four, eight, twelve, sixteen, and more pages, containing pointed, well-written

articles on this great question, should be scattered like the leaves of autumn."

5. Cooking SchoolsCounsels on Health, p. 487. "Wherever medical missionary work is carried on in our large cities, cooking schools

should be held"

Medical Ministry, p. 267. "Form classes, where you may teach the people how to make good bread, and how to

put together ingredients to make healthful food combinations from the grains and the vegetables."

Counsels on Health, p. 474. "Cooking schools, conducted by wise instructors, are to be held in America and in

other lands. Everything that we can do should be done to show the people the value of the reform diet."

6. Health Foods

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 269. I must now give to my brethren the instruction that the Lord has given me

in regard to the health food question. By many the health foods are looked upon as of man's devising, but they are

of God's originating, as a blessing to His people. The health food work is the property of God, and is not to be

made a financial speculation for personal gain. The light that God has given and will continue to give on the foodquestion is to be to His people today what the manna was to the children of Israel. The manna fell from heaven,

and the people were told to gather it, and prepare it to be eaten. So in the different countries of the world, light will

be given to the Lord's people, and health foods suited to these countries will be prepared.

The members of every church are to cultivate the tact and ingenuity that God will give them. The Lord has

skill and understanding for all who will use their ability in striving to learn how to combine the productions of the

earth so as to make simple, easily prepared, healthful foods, which will take the place of flesh meats, so that

people will have no excuse for eating flesh meat

It is God's purpose that health foods shall be manufactured in many places. Those who accept the truth are to

learn how to prepare these simple foods. It is not the Lord's plan that the poor shall suffer for the necessaries of

life. The Lord calls upon His people in the different countries to ask Him for wisdom, and then to use aright the

wisdom He gives. We are not to settle down in hopelessness and discouragement. We are to do our best to

enlighten others.

7. Restaurant Work

A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education, p. 21. The opening of hygienic restaurants is a work that

God would have done in the cities. If wisely conducted, these restaurants will be missionary centers. Those

working in them should have at hand publications on health and temperance topics and on other phases of gospel

truth, to give to those coming for meals.

8. Treatment Rooms

Counsels on Health, p. 468. "In every city where we have a church, there is need of a place where treatment can

be given. Among the homes of our church members there are few that afford room and facilities for the proper


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care of the sick. A place should be provided where treatment may be given for common ailments. The building

might be inelegant and even rude, but it should be furnished with facilities for giving simple treatments. These,

skillfully employed, would prove a blessing not only to our own people, but to their neighbors, and might be the

means of calling the attention of many to health principles."

Counsels on Health, p. 488. "I have been given light that in many cities it is advisable for a restaurant to be

connected with treatment rooms. The two can co-operate in upholding right principles. In connection with these, it

is sometimes advisable to have rooms that will serve as lodgings for the sick. These establishments will serve as

feeders to the sanitariums located in the country, and would better be conducted in rented buildings. We are not to

erect in the cities large buildings, in which to care for the sick, because God has plainly indicated that the sick can

be better cared for outside of the cities. In many places it will be necessary to begin sanitarium work in the cities,

but, as much as possible, this work should be transferred to the country as soon as suitable locations can be

secured."

9. Fairs and Large Gatherings

Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 442. "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 withoutthe 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."

10. Sanitariums

Letter 42, 1900. The Sanitarium is to be the Lord's instrumentality for sowing the seeds of truth in human hearts

and removing the unjust stigma which has been placed upon Seventh-day Adventists.

Counsels on Health, p. 438. "We must go no faster than we can take those with us whose consciences and intellects

are convinced of the truths we advocate. We must meet the people where they are. Some of us have been many years

in arriving at our present position in health reform. It is slow work to obtain a reform in diet. We have powerful

appetites to meet; for the world is given to gluttony. If we should allow the people as much time as we have requiredto come up the present advanced state in reform, we would be very patient with them, and allow them to advance step

by step, as we have done, until their feet are firmly established upon the health- reform platform. But we should be

very cautious not to advance too fast, lest we be obliged to retrace our steps. In reforms, we would better come one

step short of the mark than to go one step beyond it. And if there is error at all, let it be on the side next to the people.

"Above all things, we should not with our pens advocate positions that we do not put to a practical test in our own

families, upon our own tables....

"If we come to persons who have not been enlightened in regard to health reform, and present our strongest

positions at rust, there is danger of their becoming discouraged as they see how much they have to give up, so that

they will make no effort to reform. We must lead the people along patiently and gradually, remembering the hole of

the pit whence we were digged."

Medical Ministry, p. 261. "...the Lord means you to have tact in meeting the people where they are, in their darkness

and self-indulgence. As far as I am concerned personally, I am decidedly in favor of a plain, simple diet. But it will

not be best to put worldly, self-indulgent patients on a diet so strict that they will be turned from health reform. This

will not convince them of the need of a change in their habits of eating and drinking. Tell them the facts. Educate

them to see the need of a plain, simple diet, and make the change gradually. Give them time to respond to the

treatment and the instruction given them. Work and pray, and lead them along as gently as possible."

Act Promptly

Review and Herald, July 1, 1884. "Act promptly. God would have you minute men, as were the men who composed

Gideon's army. Many times ministers are too precise, too calculating. While they are getting ready to do a great work,

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the opportunity for doing a good work passes unimproved. The minister moves as though the whole burden rested on

himself, a poor finite man, when Jesus is carrying him and his burden too. Brethren, trust self less, and Jesus more."

Medical Ministry, p. 317. We shall see the medical missionary work broadening and deepening at every point of its

progress, because of the inflowing of hundreds and thousands of streams, until the whole earth is covered as the

waters cover the sea.

6 Testimonies, pp. 227, 228. From this fountain [Zechariah 13:1] flows the mighty river seen in Ezekiels

vision....Such a river of life and healing God designs that, by His power working through them, our sanitariums shall

be.

Maranatha, p. 185. Perilous times are before us. The whole world will be involved in perplexity and distress,

disease of every kind will be upon the human family, and such ignorance as now prevails concerning the laws of

health would result in great suffering and the loss of many lives that might be saved. . . .

As religious aggression subverts the liberties of our nation, those who would stand for freedom of conscience will

be placed in unfavorable positions. For their own sake, they should, while they have opportunity, become intelligent

in regard to disease, its causes, prevention, and cure. And those who do this will find a field of labor anywhere. Therewill be suffering ones, plenty of them, who will need help, not only among those of our own faith, but largely among

those who know not the truth.

The medical work done in connection with the giving of the third angel's message, is to accomplish wonderful

results. It is to be a sanctifying, unifying work, corresponding to the work which the great Head of the church sent

forth the first disciples to do.

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PART 4 - GOD DOES NOT ALWAYS CHOOSE TO HEAL

(Read 2 Corinthians 12:7-10)

Medical Ministry, p. 117. Some died in the days of Christ and in the days of the apostles because the Lord knew just

what was best for them.

Counsels on Health, p. 375. Many will be laid away to sleep before the fiery ordeal of the time of trouble shall come

upon our world.

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1. Reveals error to the sinner

4 Testimonies, p. 83. Unbelief was taking possession of your soul, and the Lord afflicted you that you might gain

a needed experience.

Letter to Dear Brother and Sister Kress May 29, 1901: It is the lack of suitable food that has caused you to

suffer so keenly....The reason for Dr. Kresss poor health is his overdrawing on his bank account of health and

then failing to replace the amount drawn out by wholesome, nutritious, palatable food.

2. Reveals error to observers

Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 361. The Lord would teach his people to acknowledge the justice of his corrections,

that others may fear. There were those in Israel whom the warning of this terrible judgement might save from

presuming upon Gods forbearance until they too should seal their own destiny. The divine rebuke is upon that

false sympathy for the sinner which endeavors to excuse his sin.

3. To develop character

This Day With God, p. 177. During the past night I have slept but little. I tried to look to Jesus, to place myself

in the hands of the Great Physician. He has said, My grace is sufficient for thee (2 Cor. 12:9). The grace of

Christ leads men to speak right words under all circumstances. Bodily suffering is no excuse for un-Christlikeactions....During these sleepless hours, the subject of overcoming has been the burden of my thoughts....The grace

of God is declared to be sufficient for all the ills and trials against which human beings have to contend. Is it

powerless then against bodily infirmity? Shall divine grace stand back, while Satan takes the field, holding the

victim in the power of his evil attributes?

4. To accomplish the Lords purposes

Signs of the Times, February 21, 1900. Because a man is sick, God does not lay him aside; He makes use of the

sickness. The man who exercises unshaken faith under suffering, exercises a more telling influence than he could

possibly do in health. Often the afflicted one can preach a more effectual sermon from his sick-bed than ever he

preached from the pulpit. And it is on the sickbed that the sustaining power of God is magnified. When we are

pressed by suffering or bereavement, God sends the needed help. His promises are proved to be steadfast and

unfailing.

E.G. White Letter, July 3, 1892. While I am passing through this ordeal of physical suffering, I devote many

sleepless hours to earnest prayer that I may be restored to health. For six months I have been nearly helpless. . . .

Emma White writes saying, Mother, if you are no better, take the next boat back to America. But this is not my

way to back out of the situation. My sickness may be in the Lords plan as a part of the arrangement to

accomplish purposes which we do not discern. I expect to remain here my allotted time and do whatever I can

though compassed with infirmities.

Desire of Ages, pp. 224, 225. God never leads His children otherwise that they would choose to be led, if they

could see the end from the beginning, and discern the glory of the purpose which they are fulfilling as coworkers

with Him. . . . And of all the gifts that Heaven can bestow upon men, fellowship with Christ in His sufferings is

the most weighty trust and the highest honor.

5. Punishment as a natural consequence of sin (for the unrepentant)

Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 360, 361. God has placed in his word no command which men may obey or

disobey at will and not suffer the consequences.

Desire of Ages, p. 764. This is not an act of arbitrary power on the part of God. The rejecters of His mercy reap

that which they have sown. . . . God gives them existence for a time that they may develop their character and

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1. Toward the Sufferings of Others

Counsels on Health, p. 502. Indifference to human woes must give place to lively interest in the sufferings of

others.

Counsels on Health, p. 532. All heaven is interested in the work of relieving suffering humanity.

Counsels on Health, p. 213. In the word of God there are gracious promises, from which those who are

suffering, whether in body or in mind, may receive comfort and hope and encouragement.

Counsels on Health, p. 385. If you are in daily communion with God, you will learn to place His estimate upon

men, and the obligations resting upon you to bless suffering humanity will meet with a willing response.

4 Testimonies, p. 568. Many are without God, and without hope in the world. They are guilty, corrupt, and

enslaved by Satans devices. Yet these are the ones whom Christ came from Heaven to redeem. They are

subjects for tenderest pity, sympathy, and tireless effort; for they are on the verge of ruin.

Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, p. 61. Gods purpose is not merely to deliver from the suffering that is the

inevitable result of sin, but to save from sin itself.

2. Toward Our Own Suffering

This Day With God, p. 194. There is not a single instance in which God has hidden His face from the

supplication of His people. When every other resource failed He was a present help in every emergency.

This Day With God, p. 45. For eleven months after going to Australia, I suffered from inflammatory

rheumatism. I was unable to lift my feet from the floor without suffering great pain....During those eleven months

of suffering....I would not give up. My right arm, from the elbow down, was whole, so that I could use the pen,

and I wrote twenty-five hundred pages of letter paper for publication. During this period, I had the most terrible

suffering of my life....But to all this there is a cheerful side. My Saviour seemed to be close beside me. I felt his

sacred presence in my heart, and I was so thankful. These months of suffering were the happiest months of mylife, because of the companionship of my Saviour....His love filled by heart. All through my sickness, His love,

His tender compassion, was my comfort....Look unto Jesus, your pitying, loving Saviour. If you cast your

helpless soul on Christ, He will bring joy and peace to your soul. He will be your crown of rejoicing, your

exceeding great reward.

SUMMARY OF GODS PLAN FOR RESTORATION OF HEALTH:

Reason from cause to effect Remove causes in so far as possible Use all known God-approved remedies appropriately Claim promises in faith Leave results with God; trust His love, power and wisdom

Wring all blessings possible out of pain and suffering Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS!!!

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PART 5 - COUNTERFEIT MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORKA TEST

19 Manuscript Releases, p. 358. Wonderful scenes, with which Satan will be closely connected, will soon take place.

God's Word declares that Satan will work miracles. He will make people sick, and then will suddenly remove from them

his satanic power. They will then be regarded as healed. These works of apparent healing will bring Seventh-dayAdventists to the test. Many who have had great light will fail to walk in the light, because they have not become one

with Christ. His instruction is not palatable to them.

Medical Ministry, p. 15. Unbelievers who are afflicted with infirmities will require them to work a miracle upon them,

if God is with them. Christs followers should imitate the example of their Lord. Jesus, with His divine power, did not

do any mighty works for Satans diversion. Neither can the servants of Christ. They should refer the unbelieving to the

written, inspired testimony for evidence of their being the loyal people of God and heirs of salvation.

1 Testimonies, p. 302. The sick will be healed before us. Miracles will be performed in our sight. Are we prepared for

the trial which awaits us when the lying wonders of Satan shall be more fully exhibited?

Loma Linda Messages, p. 336. The truth for this time, the third angels message, is to be proclaimed with a loud voice,

as we approach the great final test. This test must come to the churches in connection with true medical missionarywork, a work that has the Great Physician to dictate and preside in all it comprehends.

Evangelism, p. 600. In the future, truth will be counterfeited by the precepts of men. Deceptive theories will be

presented as safe doctrines. False sciences is one of the agencies that Satan used in the heavenly courts, and it is used by

him today. . . .

2 Selected Messages, p. 35. This entering in of Satan through the sciences is well devised. Through the channel of

phrenology, psychology, and mesmerism, he comes more directly to the people of this generation, and works with that

power which is to characterize his efforts near the close of probation. Mark the influence of these sciences, dear reader,

for the conflict between Christ and Satan is not yet ended

Sons and Daughters of God, p. 46. Spiritualism asserts that men are unfallen demigods; that "each mind will judge

itself"; that "true knowledge places men above all law"; that "all sins committed are innocent"; for whatever is, is

right," and "God doth not condemn." The basest of human beings it represents as in heaven, and highly exalted

there.... Multitudes are thus led to believe that desire is the highest law, that license is liberty, and that man is

accountable only to himself.

Great Controversy, p. 566. In the days of the Hebrews there was a class of people who claimed, as do the

Spiritualists of today, to hold communication with the dead. But the "familiar spirits," as these visitants from other

worlds were called, are declared by the Bible to be the "spirits of devils." Compare Num. 25:1-3; Ps. 106:28; 1

Cor. 10:20; Rev. 16:14. The work of dealing with familiar spirits was pronounced an abomination to the Lord, and

was solemnly forbidden under penalty of death. Lev. 19:31; 20:27. . . .But Spiritualism, which numbers its converts

by hundreds of thousands, yea, by millions, which has made its way into scientific circles, which has invaded

churches, and has found favor in legislative bodies, and even in the courts of kings--this mammoth deception is but arevival, in a new disguise, of the witchcraft condemned and prohibited of old.

Evangelism, p. 602. Spiritualism is about to take the world captive. There are many who think that Spiritualism is

upheld through trickery and imposture, but this is far from the truth. Superhuman power is working in a variety of

ways, and few have any idea as to what will be the manifestations of Spiritualism in the future.

Great Controversy, p. 553. Many will be ensnared through the belief that Spiritualism is a merely human imposture;

when brought face to face with manifestations which they cannot but regard as supernatural, they will be deceived,

and will be led to accept them as the great power of God.

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