e Plain the Effects of Indulgence
It must be kept before the people that the right balance of the
mental and moral powers depends in a great degree on the right
conditions of the physical system. All narcotics and unnatural stimulants
that enfeeble and degrade the physical nature tend to lower the
tone of the intellect and morals. Intemperance lies at the foundation
[39] of the moral depravity of the world. By the indulgence of perverted
appetite, man loses his power to resist temptation.
Temperance reformers have a work to do in educating the people
in these lines. Teach them that health, character, and even life, are
endangered by the use of stimulants, which excite the exhausted
energies to unnatural, spasmodic action.—The Ministry of Healing,
335.
Many May Be Saved From Degradation
I have been shown that the medical missionary work will discover,
in the very depths of degradation, men who once possessed
fine minds, richest qualifications, who will be rescued by proper
labor from their fallen condition. It is the truth as it is in Jesus that is
to be brought before human minds after they have been sympathetically
cared for and their physical necessities met. The Holy Spirit is
working and co-operating with the human agencies that are laboring
for such souls, and some will appreciate the foundation upon a rock
for their religious faith.
There is to be no startling communication of strange doctrine to
these subjects whom God loves and pities; but as they are helped
physically by the medical missionary workers, the Holy Spirit cooperates
with the minister of human agencies, to arouse the moral
powers. The mental powers are awakened into activity