the truth is carried, the people should be given instruction
in regard to the preparation of healthful foods. God desires that
in every place the people should be taught by skillful teachers how
to utilize wisely the products that they can raise or readily obtain in
their section of the country. Thus the poor, as well as those in better
circumstances, can be taught to live healthfully.
All the way along from the beginning, we have found it necessary
to educate, educate, educate. God desires us to continue to educate
the people. We are not to neglect this work because of the effect we
may fear it will have on the sale of goods manufactured in our health
food factories. This is not the most important matter. Our work is to
show the people how they can obtain and prepare wholesome food,
how they can co-operate with God in restoring in themselves His
image.—Letter 135, 1902.
A Continual Reform Essential
Reform, continual reform, must be kept before the people, and
by our example we must enforce our teachings. 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 review of
every habit and every practice, and at once put away those things
[32] that cause an unhealthy condition of the body, and thus cast a dark
shadow over the mind.-Counsels on Health, 445.
Those who act as teachers are to be intelligent in regard to disease
and its causes, understanding that every action of the human agent
should be in perfect harmony with the laws of life. The light God has
given on health reform is for our salvation and the salvation of the
world. Men and women should be informed in regard to the human
habitation, fitted up by our Creator as His dwelling place, and over
which He desires us to be faithful stewards. “For ye are the temple
of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk
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in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”—The
Review and Herald, November 12, 1901.
Responsibility of Those Who Have Light
There are but few as yet who are aroused sufficiently to understand
how much their habits of diet have to do with their health,
their characters, their usefulness in this world, and their eternal
destiny. I saw that it is the duty of those who have received the
