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 “Nearly every family needs to be stirred up on this question, and their consciences aroused to be doers of the word of God in **practicing self-denial of appetite**.” CW 124.3
-“One reason that there is not more sincere piety and religious fervor, is because the mind is occupied with unimportant things and there is no time to meditate, search the Scriptures, or pray. **If the consciences can be aroused to see the errors in the preparation of the food, and the influence upon the moral tendencies of our nature**, there would be in every family decided reforms. Intemperance in desire resulted to our first parents in the loss of Eden. We generally find, even among Seventh-day Adventists, that inclination; habit; delicate, unhealthful preparations in cooking; and **unhealthful habits of dress** are weakening physical, mental, and moral efficiency, and //making it impossible to overcome temptation//. Now what shall we do? This subject is a sadly neglected matter.” CW 125.1
+“One reason that there is not more sincere piety and religious fervor, is because the mind is occupied with unimportant things and there is no time to meditate, search the Scriptures, or pray. **If the consciences can be aroused to see the errors in the preparation of the food, and the influence upon the moral tendencies of our nature**, there would be in every family decided reforms. Intemperance in desire resulted to our first parents in the loss of Eden. We generally find, even among Seventh-day Adventists, that inclination; habit; delicate, unhealthful preparations in cooking; and **unhealthful habits of dress** are weakening physical, mental, and moral efficiency, and __making it impossible to overcome temptation__. Now what shall we do? This subject is a sadly neglected matter.” CW 125.1
 “It should be the very best health journal in our country. It must be adapted to the wants of the common people, **ready to answer all proper questions**, and **fully explain the first principles of the laws of life, and how to obey them and preserve health**.” CW 127.1
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 “**Great care should be exercised by those who prepare recipes for our health journals**. Some of the specially prepared foods now being made can be improved, and our plans regarding their use will have to be modified. Some have used the nut preparations too freely. Many have written to me, “I can not use the nut foods; what shall I use in the place of meat?” One night I seemed to be standing before a company of people, telling them that nuts are used too freely in their preparation of foods; that the system can not take care of them when used as in some of the recipes given; and that, if used more sparingly, the results would be more satisfactory." TSDF 99.7
-“Let **//not//** the religious phase be dropped out. Keep before the people **Bible hygiene, temperance from a Christian standpoint**.” Letter 34, 1887, par. 5
+“Let **__not__** the religious phase be dropped out. Keep before the people **Bible hygiene, temperance from a Christian standpoint**.” Letter 34, 1887, par. 5
-“Our own people should read and study the health books. They will then know **what to do in case of sickness**.” Manuscript 113, 1901, par. 7)
+“Our own people should read and study the health books. They will then know **what to do in case of sickness**.” Manuscript 113, 1901, par. 7
 ===== How Should Subjects Be Presented? =====
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   * Consider the foods available to the poor people; it may not be best to prescribe the strictest diet (CD 205.4, CCh 238.2)
   * Should be the very best health journal in our country (CW 127.1)
+“Please **make your sentences short**, for then your articles will be much more interesting. . . .
+I hope and pray that you may make the //Herald of Health// a living, speaking, vital agency for good. **Do not let it get prosy. Let it be spicy with the fragrance of pure truth.** This is a savor of life unto life.” CW 128.2, 3
+“When at our large gatherings, make all the discourses highly reformative. Arouse the intellect. Bring up the talents possible into the efforts made, and then follow up the effort with tracts and pamphlets, with **articles written in simple form,** to make the subjects brought before them distinctly stated, that the word spoken may be repeated by the silent agent. **Short, interesting articles should be arranged in cheap style**, and scattered everywhere. They should be at hand upon every occasion where the truth is brought before the minds of those to whom it is new and strange.” CW 126.1
+“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 required to come up to 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.” CW 129.3
+“There is **danger of burying the truth so deep in science** that the common minds for whom we labor and who will compose the members of our churches will fail to see it and appreciate it. We want the truth as it is in Jesus. We want to meet the wants of our people.” PM 227.2
+“While working against gluttony and intemperance, we must recognize the condition to which the human family is subjected. God has made provision for those who live in the different countries of the world. Those who desire to be co-workers with God must consider carefully before they specify just what foods should and should not be eaten. We are to be brought into connection with the masses. **Should health reform in its most extreme form be taught to those whose circumstances forbid its adoption, more harm than good would be done**. As I preach the gospel to the poor, I am instructed to tell them to eat that food which is most nourishing. I cannot say to them: ‘You must not eat eggs, or milk, or cream. You must use no butter in the preparation of food.’ The gospel must be preached to the poor, but the time has not yet come to prescribe the strictest diet.” CCh 238.2
+“It should be **the very best health journal in our country**. It must be **adapted to the wants of the common people**.” CW 127.1
 ===== What Is the Audience of a Health Journal? =====
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   * Our own church members should subscribe to and study the health publications, and practice its instruction (Manuscript 113, 1901, par. 7)
+“**Health reform will reach a class and has reached a class that otherwise would __never__ have been reached by the truth.** There is a great necessity for labor being put forth to help the people, **believers and unbelievers**, at the present time by health talks, and health publications.” PM 226.4
+“We want that //Good Health// shall be circulated, and we want to shape our work and our efforts to reach the people where they are, much in the same way Christ worked in simplicity, that **the uninformed may be reached and the highest minds may be benefited also**.” PM 227.1
+“**__Many__ of those looked upon as hopelessly depraved**, will, if properly instructed in regard to their unhealthful practices, be arrested with the truth. Then they may be elevated, ennobled, sanctified, fit vessels for the Master’s use.” CW 124.2
+“Publications upon health reform will reach **__many__ who will not see or read anything upon important Bible subjects**.” CW 123.2
+“The great object to be kept in view by the publication of such a journal should be the good of the suffering people of God. The **common people, especially those too poor to attend the Institute**, must be reached and instructed by the //Health Reformer//.” CW 127.1
+“**Our own people should read and study the health books**. They will then know what to do in case of sickness. **They should subscribe for the //Good Health//, or some other of our health journals, and should study and practice the instruction it contains**. And more than this, they should make earnest efforts to circulate it among their neighbors.” Manuscript 113, 1901, par. 7
+“Fathers and mothers, there is much that you may learn in regard to the expressed will of God concerning true missionary work. **Obtain all the help you can from the study of our books and publications. I see great advantage in every family’s reading //Good Health//**. It is full of valuable information. Let **every family** obtain instruction from this journal. It is a physician that you may always have in your home.” 16MR 145.3
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   * It is like always having a physician in the home (16MR 145.3)
+“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.” 7T 136.3
+“I have been shown that in giving attention to this branch of the work you **remove a __large__ amount of prejudice from many minds, that has barred the way to their receiving the truth and reading the publications setting forth the truth which we believe**. This matter must not be passed over as nonessential; for nearly every family needs to be stirred up on this question, and their consciences aroused to be doers of the word of God in practicing self-denial of appetite. **When you make the people intelligent on the question of health reform, you have prepared the way for them to give attention to the present truth for these last days.** Said my guide, ‘Educate, educate, educate.’ The mind must be enlightened; for the understanding is darkened just as Satan would have it to be, because he can find access through perverted appetite, to debase the soul.” CW 124.3
+“I am pained over the existing state of things. I am informed by my guide, ‘All who believe and proclaim the truth should not only practice health reform, but teach it diligently to others.’ This will be **a __strong__ agency in calling the attention of the unbelieving to consider that if we are intelligent upon this subject in regard to healthful diet and practices, we would be sound on the subjects of Bible doctrine**. If we backslide on this point, we lose __much__ influence with the outside world.” CW 125.2
+“Minds must be arrested and held to the point, else Satan will steal away the seed sown. There will be but a small number in comparison with the rejectors of truth, that will receive it; but **__one__ soul is of highest value. The value of all the world sinks into insignificance in comparison to the value of __one__ human soul**.” CW 126.2
+“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**.” PM 226.3
+“The sale of health journals and books in no way hinders the sale of the publications dealing with other phases of the third angel’s message. **All are to prepare the way for the Lord Jesus to come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory**.” CM 139.1
+“Our health literature is the helping hand of the gospel, opening the way for the truth to enter and save many souls. **__I know of nothing which so quickly unlocks hearts as this literature__, which, when read and practiced, leads souls to the searching of the Bible for a better understanding of the truth**.” Manuscript 113, 1901, par. 4
 ===== What About the Circulation of the Health Journal? =====
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   * The sale of health journals does not hinder the sale of other religious books (CM 139.1)
   * God will greatly bless those who take hold of it earnestly (CH 447.1)
-===== Supporting EGW Comments =====
-> The people are in sad need of the light shining from the pages of our health and temperance journals. God desires to use these 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**.... PM 226.1
+“**The circulation of our health publications is a __most important work__**. It is a work in which **all who believe the special truths for this time should have a __living__ interest**. God desires that now, as never before, the minds of the people shall be deeply stirred to investigate the great temperance question and principles underlying true health reform.” CH 445.1
-> 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.... PM 226.2
-> 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.... PM 226.3
+“In all our work caution should be used that no one branch be made a specialty, while other interests are left to suffer. There has not been that interest taken in the circulation of our health journals that there should be. **The circulation of these journals must not be neglected, or the people will suffer great loss**.” CH 446.3
-> Health reform will reach a class and has reached a class that otherwise would never have been reached by the truth. There is a great necessity for labor being put forth to help the people, believers and unbelievers, at the present time by health talks, and health publications. I cannot see why the health books should not have a permanent place as well as the other publications notwithstanding human prejudices to the contrary. PM 226.4
+“Let __none__ think that the circulation of the health journals is a minor matter. **All should take hold of this work with more interest** and make greater efforts in this direction. **God will greatly bless those who take hold of it in earnest, for it is a work that should receive attention at this time**.” CH 447.1
+“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**.” CH 447.2
-> The minds of our California people are not advanced far enough in health reform to receive the most good from Good Health. [Good Health and Health Reformer were two early denominational health journals. See SDAEn 573. Today Your Life and Health has taken the field.] The crib is placed too high. You can, with the counsel of S and Dr. W, prepare articles that are already in print that are  **simple, yet full of knowledge**, by perusing the back numbers of Health Reformer. I would today that the Good Health were more after the same order, for I think there is more simplicity and good religion in the Reformer, and **matter that will benefit all classes and minds**, than that contained in Good Health as a whole. PM 226.5
+“The sale of health journals and books **in no way hinders the sale of the publications dealing with other phases of the third angel’s message**. All are **to prepare the way for the Lord Jesus to come** in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” CM 139.1
-> We want that Good Health shall be circulated, and we want to shape our work and our efforts to **reach the people where they are,** much in the same way Christ worked in simplicity, that the uninformed may be reached and the highest minds may be benefited also. There is **danger of burying the truth so deep in science** that the common minds for whom we labor and who will compose the members of our churches will fail to see it and appreciate it. We want the truth as it is in Jesus. We want to meet the wants of our people. PM 227.1
-> 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....
+“**Canvassers should bring the health publications to the notice of those they visit**, telling them how useful they are in the treatment of disease. Tell them that such a journal, if its instruction is studied and practiced, will bring health to the family.” Manuscript 113, 1901, par. 5
-> 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....
-> Health reform will reach a class and has reached a class that otherwise would never have been reached by the truth. There is a great necessity for labor being put forth to help the people, believers and unbelievers, at the present time by health talks, and health publications. I cannot see why the health books should not have a permanent place as well as the other publications notwithstanding human prejudices to the contrary. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p390.1205(390.1207)&index=0#highlight=390.1205,0:390.1207,429|PM 226]]
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