Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Health Reform at the Sanitarium
Among the greatest dangers to our health
institutions is the influence of physicians,
superintendents, and helpers who profess to believe
the present truth, but who have never taken their
stand fully upon health reform. Some have no
conscientious scruples in regard to their eating,
drinking, and dressing. How can the physician or
anyone else present the matter as it is when he
himself is indulging in the use of harmful things?
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 in regard to
this matter, for God purposes to accomplish much
through this agency.
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 physicians—pure
air, pure water, proper exercise, a clear conscience.
Those who persist in the use of tea, coffee, and
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