The True Medical Missionary Work

“We are now to unify, and by true medical missionary work prepare the way for our coming King. Let us increase in a knowledge of the truth…” {MM 22.3}

“In a special sense SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS have been set in the world as watchmen and light bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world…They HAVE BEEN GIVEN A WORK OF THE MOST SOLEMN IMPORT--the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels' messages. There is no other work of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention.”  {9T 19.1}

“…The truth for this time, the third angel's message (we can’t preach the third without the first and second), is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, meaning with increasing power, as we approach the great final test. This test must come to the churches in connection with the true medical missionary work…” {10MR 314.1}

“That which is of the most importance is that the students be taught how to represent aright the principles of health reform…” {9T 177.3}

TRUE MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK

“…It is the duty of every person to become intelligent in regard to disease and its causes…” (HL 19.5)

“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…”  (CH 506.1)

“…Those who go forth to engage in the work of the ministry MUST BE INTELLIGENT upon the subject of health reform…”  (MM 238.3)

WHY?

“…Strange things have been done in the medical missionary work of late…”  (CH 370.3)

“Many have misinterpreted health reform, and have received perverted ideas of what constitutes right living…”  {CD 200.3}

THE LORD HAS MARKED OUT A WAY FOR US TO DO THIS WORK

“…The Lord has marked out a way in which his people are to carry forward a work of physical healing…”  (MM 14.3)

WE NEED NOT GO TO THE WORLD TO GET OUR HEALTH INFORMATION

“…The world is not to be our criterion…let the Lord’s voice be heard.”  {LS 322.1}

“The different parties of professed Advent believers have each a little truth, but God has given all these truths to His children who are being prepared for the day of God. He has also given them truths that none of these parties know, neither will they understand…if God has any new light to communicate, he will let his chosen and beloved understand it, without their going to have their minds enlightened by hearing those who are in darkness and error.”  {EW 124.2}

“Men may get up scheme after scheme, and the enemy will seek to seduce souls from the truth, but all who believe that the Lord has spoken through Sister White, and has given her a message, will be safe from the many delusions that will come in these last days.”  1906 {3SM 83.5}

“We must follow the directions given through the spirit of prophecy…this will save us from accepting strong delusions. God…has spoken to us through the testimonies to the church and through the books that have helped to make plain our present duty...” (8T 298.1}

“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:11-13, 20. THE WORLD IS NOT TO BE OUR CRITERION…LET THE LORD’S VOICE BE HEARD.” {LS 322.1}

“Many are going directly contrary to the light which God has given to his people, because they do not read the books which contain the light and knowledge in cautions, reproofs, and warnings…”  {4T 391.1}

“God has placed it in our power to obtain a knowledge of the laws of health…those who refuse to improve the light and knowledge that have been mercifully placed within their reach…are placing themselves where they will be exposed to the DELUSIONS of Satan…” {CTBH 111.2}

NO TIME TO LEARN ALL THESE THINGS?

THIS CAN AND WILL BE LEARNED QUICKLY!!!

“…YE MUST STEP FAST…now time is almost finished, and what we have been years learning, they will have to learn in a few months. They will also have much to unlearn and much to learn again…” {EW 67.2}

“…There are those who with a few months’ instruction would be prepared to go out and do acceptable Medical Missionary work…”  {PC 38.7}

HOW ARE THEY TO LEARN?

“…few can take a course of training in our medical institutions. But ALL CAN study our health literature and become intelligent on this important subject…”  {MM 320.3}

WHICH BOOKS? (All are SOP books)

1. How to Live
2. Ministry of Healing
3. Christian Temperance & Bible Hygiene
4. Counsels on Diet and Foods
5. Counsels on Heath
6. Healthful Living
7. Temperance
8. Medical Ministry
9. Loma Linda Messages
10. Mind, Character, and Personality (Pt. 1)
11. Mind, Character, and Personality (Pt. 2)
12. A Call To Medical Evangelism
13. Health Reformer Articles
14. Paulson Collection

“Fifty times as much might be accomplished in self-education…education of self means more than the colleges can give you…” {3MR 363.2}

EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE DELUSIONS BROUGHT INTO THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK

·       1. Treatment of the Rectum

“There are men who make a specialty of treating the rectum, and some feel that they have been greatly benefited. But I have been instructed that this treatment, as well as many surgical operations, leaves with many a serious weakness.” {LLM 178.2} 

NOTE: This DOESN’T MEAN you can’t give an occasional ENEMA for EMERGENCY PURPOSES.  BUT the regular enemas and colonics are a no-no according to the Spirit of Prophecy. 

·       2. Eating Coarse Vegetables

“In the study of hygiene, students should be taught the nutrient value of different foods. The effect of a concentrated and stimulating diet, also of foods deficient in the elements of nutrition, should be made plain. Tea and coffee, fine-flour bread, pickles, COARSE VEGETABLES, candies, condiments, and pastries fail of supplying proper nutriment. Many a student has broken down as the result of using such foods…”  {Ed 204.3} 

“During the last seven months we have been at home but about four weeks. In our travels we have sat at many different tables, from Iowa to Maine. Some whom we have visited live up to the best light they have. Others, who have the same opportunities of learning to live healthfully and well, have hardly taken the first steps in reform. They will tell you that they do not know how to cook in this new way. But they are without excuse in this matter of cooking; for in the work, How to Live, are many excellent recipes, and this work is within the reach of all. I do not say that the system of cookery taught in that book is perfect. I may soon furnish a small work more to my mind in some respects. But How to Live teaches cookery almost infinitely in advance of what the traveler will often meet, even among some Seventh-day Adventists.”    (1T 680.1)

·       'HOW TO LIVE':

http://www.present-truth.org/7-Health-Secrets-Sem/SOP/HOW%20TO%20LIVE.pdf

Note: In the book How to Live, all the vegetables are cooked until tender and each vegetable is given the amount of time to cook.

ELLA KELLOGG’S BOOK ‘Science in the Kitchen’ which was used in our SDA College in Sister White’s Day (go on the CD Rom and type in the name of that book in the Pioneer Section) says the following about raw vegetables: (go to page 231.3)

“Vegetables should be cooked until they are perfectly tender but not overdone. Many cooks spoil their vegetables by cooking them too long. While quote as many more serve them in an underdone state to preserve their form.  Either plan makes them less palatable, and likely to be indigestible.”

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t9183vv3g;view=1up;seq=261

“…Albumen of vegetable origin is better when cooked…” {May 7, 1903 EJW, PTUK 301.8}

Note: here’s more info from Dr. Merritt Kellogg and his younger brother john Harvey Kellogg. Both were very prominent figures within the SDA Church.

HERE'S AN ARTICLE ON HOW VEGETABLES SHOULD BE COOKED:

http://chestofbooks.com/ health/nutrition/Dietetics-4/ Cooking-Of-Vegetables.html#. VQ9GQeGPG9d

HERE'S FROM DR. MERRITT KELLOGG

(Read: 2SM 295.2; Needs, July 4, 1903 par. 21; and 20MR 158.4 to see that Sister White endorses this Dr./Older brother of John Harvey Kellogg).

DIET FOR THE SICK PER DR. KELLOGG

“Food for the sick should be nutritious, easy of digestion, and free from OILY OR FATTY SUBSTANCES. The following articles should be religiously ab stained from: pork, fats, butter, salted or smoked meats, and in many cases, all kinds of meats, salt fish, and most kinds of fresh fish, lobsters, clams, and oysters, rich gravies, and greasy soups, mustard, pepper, spices of all kinds, vinegar, pickles, RAW VEGETABLES OF ALL KINDS, cheese, rich pastry and puddings, oily nuts, tea, coffee, condiments of every kind, rich preserves, hard boiled eggs, fried eggs, and fried food of all kinds, distilled and fermented liquors of every kind, and whatever else impairs or injures digestion.

HERE'S WHAT HIS BROTHER DR. JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG SAYS ON THIS SUBJECT

https://books.google.com/books?id=blwqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA202&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q=raw%20vegetables%20&f=false

Note: This book at the above link is called 'The Home Hand Book' and was written by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. This book was endorsed by the prophet and she was urging him to publish more for all the people to read. (see --> KC 89.4-90.1) KC = Kress Collection

ON PAGE 283, HE SAYS THE FOLLOWING:

“RAW FOOD, and food which is insufficiently cooked is A FREQUENT CAUSE OF INDIGESTION. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE OF UNCOOKED VEGETABLES” (page 283.3)

Note: Medical Science is now saying the same thing

https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/think-raw-veggies-are-best-think-again/

I'm a doctor. Here’s why I want you to stop eating raw vegetables & drinking cold water.

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-23776/im-a-doctor-heres-why-i-want-you-to-stop-eating-raw-vegetables-drinking-cold-water.html

Note: Click the above and it will take you to an article.

Now I don't agree with everything the above research says, but they both say eating raw vegetables is bad on the digestion, and this is exactly what our pioneers and both Dr’s Merritt Kellogg and his younger brother John Harvey Kellogg said.

AND LOOK AT THIS QUOTE HE MAKES IN HIS BOOK ‘DIARRHEA’.

Medical writers give us seven varieties of this disease; but as such a division will only tend to confuse the mind of the nurse, the disease will be described as a unit.

CAUSE.—Overeating, and the use of improper food, such as unripe fruit, RAW VEGETABLES, sausage, pork, veal, or excessive quantities of fresh meat of any kind.

SOMETHING THAT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW IS THAT 70-80% OF OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS IN OUR G.I. TRACT (Digestive). If we eat unhealthful foods, as raw vegetables are, we are weakening our immune system.

AND LOOK AT THIS ARTICLE STATING THAT COOKED CARROTS ARE 25%+ MORE NUTRITIOUS THAN WHEN EATING RAW:

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/06/19/carrots-nutrition.aspx

Note: The above article came out in June of 2017.

HERE'S ANOTHER ARTICLE:

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/vegetables-shouldnt-eat-raw-11414.html

·       #3. Juicing of Raw Vegetables/So Much Juicing (See the document ‘Why Not Juicing’)

“…You have educated the stomach to this kind of diet. This, your judgment has taught you, was the best, because you realized the least disturbance from it. But this was not a correct experience. Your stomach was not receiving that vigor that it should from your food. TAKEN IN A LIQUID STATE, YOUR FOOD WOULD NOT GIVE HEALTHFUL VIGOR OR TONE TO THE SYSTEM. But when you change this habit, and eat more solids and less liquids, your stomach will feel disturbed. Notwithstanding this, you should not yield the point; you should educate your stomach to bear a more solid diet.”  {CD 105.1} 

“…So much liquid taken into the stomach was not healthful, and that all who subsisted on such a diet PLACED A GREAT TAX UPON THE KIDNEYS, and so much watery substance debilitated the stomach.”  {CD 105.2}   *** http://rev14.com/media_download/Juicing%20WIth%20Apendix.pdf

·       And besides this…Guess what liquid cleanses the tissues/body better than anything else?

“Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.”  {CD 420.1}

WHERE DID THE JUICING OF RAW VEGETABLES COME FROM?

WAS IT GIVEN TO SISTER WHITE OR TO A PERSON OF THE WORLD?

“A Scotchman is launching a new form of vegetarianism in Paris. Its members eat and drink nothing but uncooked vegetable foods and natural liquids.”  {June 21, 1894 EJW, PTUK 398.13}

DO WE NEED TO GO TO THOSE NOT OF OUR FAITH TO GET ANY ADDITIONAL LIGHT ON HEALTH?

“The different parties of professed Advent believers have each a little truth, but God has given all these truths to His children who are being prepared for the day of God…If God has any new light to communicate, He will let His chosen and beloved understand it, without their going to have their minds enlightened by hearing those who are in darkness and error.” {EW 124.2}

Note: It is true that many people see benefit when doing raw vegetable juicing. This is because it is a type of fast. They aren’t eating refined foods, fried foods, meat, dairy, etc. Therefore, there body will see benefits.

However, SCIENCE is showing that the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. And later, we will be learning that raw vegetables/vegetable juicing/additional liquid injures the digestive system, and whatever injures the digestive system, suppresses the immune system, for 70% of our immune system is in our digestive tract. And if you want to prevent cancer or fight cancer, you need the best immune system possible, so anything that causes it problems in any way needs to be removed. And we will be learning there are other things the prophet says benefit people, but are a no no and that the drawbacks outweigh the benefits.

ONE LAST THING ON THIS FOR NOW!!!

In the quote below, we are told that 90% OF DISEASE CAN BE RECOVERED if we follow what has been shown to Sister White.

We want that 90% recovery rate (we will be learning in the next couple of days why the recovery rate is 90% and not 100%. The Lord will lay some to sleep in sickness because if they were healed, they would go back to their old ways and lose out on heaven). We want to do what Jesus showed the prophet, not what the world is teaching.

I know this is new for many, but please have faith. I’ve been working with people for years and they are seeing great results without the use of raw vegetable juice. We will be learning more about this in the near future.

REMEMBER….

“…They will also have much to unlearn and much to learn again.”  (EW 67.2)

Q: DO WE NEED TO GO TO THOSE NOT OF OUR FAITH TO GET ANY ADDITIONAL LIGHT ON HEALTH?

“The different parties of professed Advent believers have each a little truth, but God has given all these truths to His children who are being prepared for the day of God…if God has any new light to communicate, he will let his chosen and beloved understand it, without their going to have their minds enlightened by hearing those who are in darkness and error.” {EW 124.2}

Note: If juicing of vegetables was necessary for healing, God would have told us so through the prophet.  He would have given that information directly to his church.  HE DID NOT.  It was a Scotchman from Paris not even claiming to be a Christian that came up with this information.  If we aren’t to go to those Sunday keepers who profess the 2^nd coming of Jesus, then we surely aren’t to go to those who don’t even profess Christ.

WHAT ABOUT EXPENSIVE JUICERS? WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE THOSE TYPE OF APPLIANCES IN THEIR HOME?

“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}

“…You cannot teach health reform unless you present the most inexpensive methods of living. The enemy must have no advantage in any line…”  {MM 266.3} 1898

·       Fasting For 40 Days:

“All the fasting in the world will not take the place of simple trust in the word of God.” “Ask,” He says, “and ye shall receive.”... You are not called upon to fast forty days. The Lord bore that fast for you in the wilderness of temptation. There would be no virtue in such a fast; but there is virtue in the blood of Christ.”  {CD 189.1}

WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR PROPER HEALING?

“Nature will want some assistance to bring things to their proper condition, which may be found in the simplest remedies, especially in the use of nature’s own furnished remedies—pure air, and with a precious knowledge of how to breathe; pure water, with a knowledge how to apply it; plenty of sunlight in every room in the house if possible, and with an intelligent knowledge of what advantages are to be gained by its use. All these are powerful in their efficiency, and the patient who has obtained A KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO EAT AND DRESS healthfully may live for comfort, for peace, for health, and will not be prevailed upon to put to his lips drugs, which, in the place of helping nature, paralyzes her powers.

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 (90%) recover from their ailments.”  {MM 223.4}

“…We have been instructed that in our treatment of the sick we SHOULD DISCARD the use of DRUGS. There are simple herbs that can be used for the recovery of the sick, whose effect upon the system is very different from that of those drugs that poison the blood and endanger life.”  {2SM 288.1}1908

SOP ABBREVIATIONS:
3MR = Manuscript Releases
10MR = Manuscript Releases, Volume 10
2SM = Selected Messages, Volume 2

3SM = Selected Messages, Volume 3                       
4T = Testimonies for the Church, Volume 4
8T = Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8
9T = Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9           
CD = Counsels on Diet & Foods                                
CH = Counsels on Health
CTBH = Christian Temperance & Bible Hygiene      
Ed = Education
EW = Early Writings
LS = Life Sketches                                                        
MM = Medical Ministry                                              
PC = Paulson Collection                                              
PH095 = Pamphlet 95

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Tea Vs. Coffee

3 John 2 – “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

“…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.” {MH 127.1}

“Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, PROPER DIET, the use of water, trust in divine power--these are the true remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature's remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge.” {MH 127.2}

“We should educate ourselves, not only to live in harmony with the laws of health, but to teach others the better way…” (CG 361.2)

“…Become more intelligent in regard to the laws of life. . . .”  {11MR 187.3}

EDUCATE IN REGARD TO THE LAWS OF LIFE:

“…Educate people in regard to the laws of life…” {GCDB, January 30, 1893 par. 2}

WHY?

“…so that they may know how to preserve health…”  {MM 259.3)

“It is as truly a sin to violate the laws of our being as it is to break the ten commandments. To do either is to break God's laws.”  {CD 17.3}

“…It is the duty of every person, for his own sake, and for the sake of humanity, to inform himself in regard to the laws of life and conscientiously to obey them…” (MH 128.1)

“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…”  (7T 137.1)

“You are to apply the laws of life and health to your own case. In violating the laws of health…you misrepresent your maker…” {KC 20.4}

BIBLE:

“And every man that striveth for the mastery is TEMPERATE IN ALL THINGS…” (1 Corinthians 9:25)

***Temperance is one of the fruits of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23)

SOP:

“God's people are to learn the meaning of temperance in all things. They are to practice temperance in eating and drinking and dressing…” {Te 138.5}

“…He who is converted from errors in eating, drinking, and dressing is being prepared to hear and receive the truth into a good and willing heart…” (CH 221.4)

WHAT IS TEMPERANCE?

“…True temperance teaches us to dispense entirely with everything hurtful, and to use judiciously that which is healthful…” (Te 138.2)

TOUCH NOT:

“…Touch not, taste not, handle not, tea, coffee…The only perfectly safe course to pursue is to stand firmly on the side of temperance and not venture in the path of danger.”  {3T 488.1}

“The advocates of temperance reform should be awake to the evils resulting from the use of…tea, and coffee…” {MH 334.4}

“Tea is poisonous to the system. Christians should let it alone…” {CD 421.1}

“Those who believe present truth should refuse to drink tea or coffee…” {Te 158.4}

CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE SERVED TEA OR COFFEE:

(3T 488.3)

REFUSE IT WHEN IT IS OFFERED:

“…If tea is offered, let him refuse it…”  (CH 463.1)

WHY?

“The stimulating diet and drink of this day are not conducive to the best state of health. Tea, coffee, and tobacco are all stimulating, and contain poisons. They are not only unnecessary, but harmful, and should be discarded if we would add to knowledge temperance.”  {CD 420.2}

WHEN OFFERED TEA OR COFFEE, WE SHOULD REFUSE AND EXPLAIN ITS HARMFUL EFFECTS:

“…If tea is offered, let him refuse it, explaining that it is harmful, that though for a time stimulating, the stimulating effect passes off, and a corresponding depression is left. Let him explain the injurious effect of intoxicating drinks, and of tobacco, tea, and coffee, on the digestive organs and the brain.”  {CH 463.1}

TEA AND COFFEE BOTH HIGHLY INJURIOUS:

“Tea has an influence to excite the nerves, and coffee benumbs the brain; both are highly injurious….

Tea acts as a stimulant, and, to a certain extent, produces intoxication. The action of coffee and many other popular drinks is similar. The first effect is exhilarating. The nerves of the stomach are excited; these convey irritation to the brain, and this in turn is aroused to impart increased action to the heart, and short-lived energy to the entire system. Fatigue is forgotten, the strength seems to be increased. The intellect is aroused, the imagination becomes more vivid. Because of these results, many suppose that their tea or coffee is doing them great good. But THIS IS A MISTAKE. Tea and coffee do not nourish the system. Their effect is produced before there has been time for digestion and assimilation, and what seems to be strength is only nervous excitement. When the influence of the stimulant is gone, the unnatural force abates, and the result is a corresponding degree of languor and debility.”  {CD 424.2}

“The continued use of these nerve irritants is followed by headache, wakefulness, palpitation of the heart, indigestion, trembling, and many other evils, for they wear away the life forces. Tired nerves need rest and quiet instead of stimulation and overwork…” {CD 423.3-424.4}

TEA AND COFFEE NOT AS POWERFUL AS TOBACCO:

“Tea and coffee, as well as tobacco, have an injurious effect upon the system. Tea is intoxicating; though less in degree, its effect is the same in character as that of spirituous liquors. Coffee has a greater tendency to becloud the intellect and benumb the energies. It is not so powerful as tobacco, but is similar in its effects. The arguments brought against tobacco may also be urged against the use of tea and coffee.” {CD 426.1}

TEA AND COFFEE ARE STIMULANTS AND CONTAIN POISONS:

“…Tea, coffee, and tobacco are all stimulating, and contain poisons…”  (CD 420.2)

NO NUTRITONAL VALUE IN TEA AND COFFEE:

“…Tea and coffee…fail of supplying proper nutriment…”  (Ed 204.3)

TEA AND COFFEE DRINKING IS A SIN:

“Tea and coffee drinking is a sin, an injurious indulgence, which, like other evils, injures the soul. These darling idols create an excitement, a morbid action of the nervous system.” {CD 425.3/Te 80.1}

“Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul,” 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…” {CD 62.5}

WHY?

ILL EFFECTS ON THE MIND:

• Brain activity greatly lessened (CH 441)
• Brain benumbed (4T 365)
• Brain injured (CD 402)
• Degeneration of the mind (CH 49)
• Depression (CH 463.1)
• Intellect beclouded (CD 426)
• Mental power ruined (CD 421)

ILL EFFECTS ON THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL:

• Development of spiritual powers hindered (CD 402)
• Injures the soul (CD 425.3)
• Sense of sacred things is perverted (CD 428-429)
• Souls finer sensibilities benumbed (3SG 116)
• Tongues loosened (CD 423)
• Worship of God hindered (CD 426)

ILL EFFECTS ON THE BODY:

• Body organs injured (CD 402)
• Causes anemia
• Depression (CH 463.1)
• Digestive organs injured (CH 463)
• Diseases of every kind produced (CD 421)
• Dizziness (Te 81)
• Dyspepsia (CH 111-112)
• Headaches (MH 326)
• Heart action increased(rapid heart rate) (MH 326)
• Heart palpitations (MH 326)
• Human system excited (nervousness)(2T 65)
• Human system injured (CD 426)
• Indigestion (MH 326)
• Irritability (Te 81)
• Life Forces worn away (CD 421-422)
• Many illnesses (MH 326)
• Nerves shattered (CD 421-422)
• Nervousness (Te 81)
• Numbness (Te 81)
• Skin sallow and lifeless in appearance (CH 111-112)
• Steal B vitamins from the body
• Stomach nerves excited (MH 326)
• Stomach ruined (CD 411)
• The appetite for intoxicating liquor fostered (3T 569)
• The appetite for stronger stimulants fostered (CD 429-430)
• The appetite for tobacco fostered (3T 569)
• The feeling for drugs are needed (CH 261)
• Trembling (MH 236)
• Unnatural appetite (2SM 420)

GIVE COFFEE SUBSTITUTE INSTEAD:

“Neither tea nor coffee should be served. Caramel cereal, made a nicely as possible, should be served in the place of these health-destroying beverages.” {CD 431.3}

MAY HAVE CEREAL COFFEE:

“…cereal coffee…” {MH 321.1}

• Cafix
• Pero
• Postum
• Roma
• Teeccino

MAY HAVE CEREAL COFFEE FOR EVENING MEAL (before 6:00 pm):

“…cereal coffee, are the foods best suited for the evening meal.”{MH 321.1}

HOW TO GIVE TEA & COFFEE UP:

• Read Natural Remedies Encyclopedia (5^th Edition) pages 609-610 and 842.
• Natural Remedies Encyclopedia (7^th Edition) pg. 882.

WHAT TO SAY AND DO WHEN GIVING THESE THINGS UP:

“I have a message from the Lord for the tempted soul who has been under the control of Satan, but who is striving to break free. GO TO THE LORD FOR HELP. Go to those who you know love and fear God, and say, Take me under your care; for Satan tempts me fiercely. I have no power from the snare to go. Keep me with you every moment, until I have more strength to resist temptation.”  {Te 104.1}  1903

***Claim Promises found in Psalms 50:15 and 1 Corinthians 10:13.

“Jesus is our ever-present help in time of need. Only call upon Him in faith, and He has promised to hear and answer your petitions.”  {5T 215.2}

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON GIVES COFFEE AND TEA UP?

“…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.”  {MH 335.2}

“…The tendency of tea, coffee, and similar drinks is in the same direction as that of alcoholic liquor and tobacco, and in some cases the habit is as difficult to break as it is for the drunkard to give up intoxicants. Those who attempt to leave off these stimulants will for a time feel a loss and will suffer without them. But by persistence they will overcome the craving and cease to feel the lack. Nature may require a little time to recover from the abuse she has suffered; but give her a chance, and she will again rally and perform her work nobly and well…” {MH 335.3} (See Te 119.1)

A NATURAL REMEDY TO USE WHEN TRYING TO OVERCOME TEA & COFFEE:

A COLD SHEET WRAP:

This is good for those who can't do the steam bath. Dip a queen size sheet in a bucket of cool water, then wrap the body completely in this sheet while in the nude. Then wrap with a blanket and lay down for 30 minutes. This will draw toxins out of the body.

TEA & COFFEE USED AS MEDICINE:

TEA:

“I do not use tea, either green or black. Not a spoonful has passed my lips for many years except when crossing the ocean, and once since on this side I took it as a medicine when I was sick and vomiting. In such circumstances it may prove a present relief… I have not bought a penny's worth of tea for years. Knowing its influence I would not dare to use it, except in cases of severe vomiting when I take it as a medicine, but not as a beverage....I do not preach one thing and practice another. I do not present to my hearers rules of life for them to follow while I make an exception in my own case...I am not guilty of drinking any tea except red-clover-top tea…” (2SM 302.2/.4-.6)

COFFEE AND TEA CAN BE USED FOR NATURAL REMEDIES:

“I have not knowingly drunk a cup of genuine coffee for twenty years, only, as I stated, during my sickness--for a medicine--I drank a cup of coffee, very strong, with a raw egg broken into it.” (To friends) {2SM 302.7}

“Tea used as a medicine, but not as a beverage.--I do not use tea, either green or black. Not a spoonful has passed my lips for many years except when crossing the ocean, and once since on this side I took it as a medicine when I was sick and vomiting. In such circumstances it may prove a present relief.”  {2SM 302.2}

PHYSICIANS SHOULD NOT PRESCRIBE FOR THE SICK:

“Physicians…will not prescribe flesh, tea, or coffee for your patient…”  (CD 294.2) Please see CTBH 223-224

“Is a man a tobacco user, a tea-and-coffee drinker, a meat eater, taking his three meals? Let him begin with tobacco, and put that away. Then let him leave off the use of tea and coffee, eat less meat, and make his third meal very light. He will find this a heavy tax upon his system. He may all the time feel worse; but what of that? There is a glorious victory ahead. Soon he can dispense with flesh-meats altogether. His appetite will become natural, and he can take simple, healthful food with a keen relish. Next, he leaves off the third meal...” {1890 JW, BHY 223.4}

MORE INFO ON TEA:

• Besides water, it is the most widely consumed beverage in the world
• Excites, but does not nourish the system
• Includes black tea, white tea, chai tea, green tea
• Is very addicting
• It contains over 400 poisons
• It originated in China as a medicinal drink
• Scientific name is Camellia sinensis
• Tea contains 1% to 4% caffeine
• Tea drinking became popular in Britain in the 17 century

MORE INFO ON COFFEE:

• Coffee cultivation first take place in Arabia
• Coffee is somewhat acidic (pH 5.0-5.1)
• The first evidence of coffee drinking appears in the middle of the 15^th century
• Is extremely high in caffeine
• Has a very negative effect on the nervous system
• Excites the system, but does not nourish it
• Is very addicting

http://www.hygienic-healing.com/HHG-Hazards/Danger%20is%20Brewing%20in%20the%20Cup.pdf

SIGN THE PLEDGE TO ABSTAIN FROM COFFEE AND TEA FROM CHINA (all tea except for herbal tea):

“We hope to carry our brethren and sisters up to a still higher standard to sign the pledge to abstain from Java coffee and the herb that comes from China. We see that there are some who need to take this step in reform.” {Te 82.1}

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