- Preface
- Preface to the second edition
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- The Wisdom of God's Works
- Govern the Body
- Adherence to a Simple Diet
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- Develop Ability
- Temperance in All Things
- The World No Criterion
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- Deep Breathing
- Superstitions Concerning Night Air
- The Influence of Fresh Air
- Scrupulous Sanitation
- Use Simple Food
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- Nonuse of Flesh Meats
- Avoid Gluttony
- Lessons From the Experience of John the Baptist
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- A Deceitful Poison
- Abstinence From Narcotics
- Self-Denial and Prayer
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- Healthful Dress
- The Power of the Will
- Suitable Employment
- Control the Imagination
- Moderation in Work
- Temperance in Labor
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- Frequent Bathing
- How to Preserve Our Sensibilities
- To a Brother
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- Self-Development a Duty
- Temptation Through Appetite
- Appetite Ruled Antediluvians
- Intemperance After the Flood
- Esau's Experience
- Israel Desired the Fleshpots of Egypt
- Intemperance and Crime
- Our Youth Lack Self-Control
- Responsibility of Parents
- Evils of Meat Eating
- Proper Preparation of Food a Duty
- Wrong Eating Destroys Health
- Too Frequent Eating a Cause of Dyspepsia
- Evils to be Avoided
- Eat Slowly
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- Partakers of the Divine Nature
- Result of Disregarding Light
- Faithfulness to the Laws of Health
- Healthful Cooking
- Learn to Cook
- A Most Essential Accomplishment
- Unwholesome Bread
- Changing the Diet
- A Harmful Combination
- Unpalatable Food
- An Impoverished Diet
- Extremes in Diet
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- Overworked Mothers
- Gluttony a Sin
- Avoid False Standards
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- The Example of Christ
- Nature a Lesson Book
- In the Country
- The Source of Healing
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- Exercise, Air, and Sunlight
- The Original Plan
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- Simpler Methods
- A Proper Balance of Physical and Mental Labor
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- Health and Efficiency
- Periods of Relaxation
- Sunlight in the Home
- Prohibited Amusements
- Exercise as a Restorer
- Walking for Exercise
- The Evils of Inactivity
- Open the Windows of the Soul
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- The Church Qualified for Service
- Living Waters for Thirsty Souls
- Sanitariums and Gospel Work
- Plants Needed in Many Places
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- Agricultural Advantages
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- Mammoth Sanitariums Not a Necessity
- Amusements in Our Sanitariums
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- Denominational Views Not to Be Urged Upon Patients
- For All Sects and Classes
- Medical Treatment, Right Living, and Prayer
- Centers of Influence and Training
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- Wholesome Substitutes
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- The Secret of Success
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- Health Reform at the Sanitarium
- Results of Faithful Effort
- Maintain a High Standard
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- Not Among the Wealthy
- Not for Pleasure Seekers
- City Conditions
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- Advantages of Wooden Structures
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- Loyalty to Our Institutions
- The Sanitarium as a Missionary Field
- Adherence to Principle
- To the Glory of God
- The Chaplain and His Work
- Hold the Truth in Its Purity
- For the Welfare of Others
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- Tact Essential
- Dealing With Sentimentalism
- The Ennobling Power of Pure Thoughts
- Criticizing and Faultfinding
- Results of Fostered Sin
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- Co-operation Between Schools and Sanitariums
- Equity in the Matter of Wages
- Economical From Principle
- Compensation
- No Exorbitant Salaries
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- Sanitarium Workers
- Recognition of Honest Labor
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- Simplicity and Economy
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- Ready for Every Good Work
- Bearing Witness to the Truth
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- Patience and Sympathy
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- Physicians to Conserve Their Strength
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- Each One in His Place
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- Dangers in Success
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- Qualifications Needed
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- Faith and Works
- Gratitude for Health
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- Obedience and Happiness
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- House-to-House Work
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- Efficiency Depends Upon Vigor
- Integrity Among Workers
- Steadfastness
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- Waves of Influence
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- In Our Schools
- A Lack of Economy
- Our Influence
- Need of Opportunity for Christian Culture
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- Gospel Workers to Teach Health Reform
- The Temperance Reform
- At the Camp Meetings
- A Good Work Made Difficult
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- Teach With Wisdom
- The Right Exercise of the Will
- Sign the Pledge
- Premature Tests
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- Sanitariums Needed in Washington and Other Places
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- Indifference and Unbelief
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- The Ruin Wrought by Satan
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- The Invitation
- Objects Lessons in Health Reform
- Why Conduct Sanitariums?
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- An Illustration
- The Breadth of the Work
- Clear New Ground
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- Rebellion Against Health Reform
- Not a Separate Work
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- In Faith and Humility
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- A Means of Overcoming Prejudice
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- The Ministry and Medical Work
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- Lights Amid Darkness
- A Lesson From Solomon's Fall
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- The Price of Health
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- Extremes in Dress
- Immodest Dresses
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- The Only Safety
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- An Advance Step
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- The Need of Consecration
- Total Abstinence
Ready for Every Good Work
[Health, Philanthropic, and Medical Missionary Work, 36-40 (1892).]
The Lord will hear and answer the prayer of the Christian physician, and he may reach an elevated standard if he will but lay hold upon the hand of Christ and determine that he will not let go. Golden opportunities are open to the Christian physician, for he may exert a precious influence upon those with whom he is brought in contact. He may guide and mold and fashion the lives of his patients by holding before them heavenly principles.CH 340.1
The physician should let men see that he does not regard his work as of a cheap order, but looks upon it as high, noble, elevated work, even that to which is attached the sacred accountability of dealing with both the souls and the bodies of those for whom Christ has paid the infinite price of His most precious blood. If the physician has the mind of Christ, he will be cheerful, hopeful, and happy, but not trifling. He will realize that heavenly angels accompany him to the sickroom and will find words to speak readily, truthfully, to his patients, that will cheer and bless them. His faith will be full of simplicity, of childlike confidence in the Lord. He will be able to repeat to the repenting soul the gracious promises of God and thus place the trembling hand of the afflicted ones in the hand of Christ, that they may find repose in God.CH 340.2
Thus, through the grace imparted to him, the physician will fulfill his heavenly Father's claims upon him. In delicate and perilous operations he may know that Jesus is by his side to counsel, to strengthen, to nerve him to act with precision and skill in his efforts to save human life. If the presence of God is not in the sickroom, Satan will be there to suggest perilous experiments and will seek to unbalance the nerves, so that life will be destroyed rather than saved.CH 340.3
A physician occupies a more important position, because of dealing with morbid souls, diseased minds, and afflicted bodies, than does the minister of the gospel. The physician can present an elevated standard of Christian character, if he will be instant in season and out of season. He is thus a missionary for the Lord, doing the Master's work with fidelity, and will receive a reward by and by.CH 341.1
Let the Christian keep his own counsel and divulge no secret to unbelievers. Let him communicate no secret that will disparage God's people. Guard your thoughts, close the door to temptation. Do your work as in the sight of the divine Watcher. Work patiently, expecting that, through the grace of Christ, you will make a success in your profession. Keep up the barriers which the Lord has erected for your safety. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life, or of death.CH 341.2
A physician should attend strictly to his professional work. He should not allow anything to come in to divert his mind from his business, or to take his attention from those who are looking to him for relief from suffering. An assuring and hopeful word spoken in season to the sufferer will often relieve his mind and win for the physician a place in his confidence. Kindness and courtesy should be manifested; but the common, cheap talk which is so customary even among some who claim to be Christians, should not be heard in our institutions. The only way for us to become truly courteous, without affectation, without undue familiarity, is to drink in the spirit of Christ, to heed the injunction, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:16. If we act upon the principles laid down in the word of God, we shall have no inclination to indulge in undue familiarity.CH 341.3
The workers in our institutions should be living examples of what they desire those to be who are patients in the institution. A right spirit and a holy life are a constant instruction to others. The hollowhearted courtesy of the fashionable world is of no value in the sight of Him by whom actions are weighed. There should be no partiality and no hypocrisy. The physician should be ready for every good work. If his life is hid with Christ in God, he will be a missionary in the highest sense.CH 342.1
When they are together, Christian physicians will conduct themselves as sons of God. They will realize that they are engaged to work in the same vineyard, and selfish barriers will be broken down. For each other they will feel a deep interest, untainted with selfishness. He who is himself a reformer can accomplish good in seeking to reform others. By precept and example he can be a savor of life unto life. Would that the curtain could be rolled back, and we could see how interestedly the angels of God are looking upon the institutions for the treatment of the sick. The work in which the physician is engaged—standing between the living and the dead—is of special importance.CH 342.2
God has given a great work into the hand of physicians. The afflicted children of men are in a degree at their mercy. How the patient watches him who cares for his physical welfare. The actions and words, the very expressions of the physician's countenance, are matters of study. What gratitude springs up in the heart of the suffering one when his pain is relieved through the efforts of his faithful physician. The patient feels that his life is in the hands of him who thus ministers to him, and the physician or the nurse can then easily approach him on religious subjects. If the sufferer is under the control of divine influences, how gently can the Christian physician or nurse drop the precious seeds of truth into the garden of the heart. He can bring the promise of God before the soul of the helpless one. If the physician has religion, he can impart the fragrance of heavenly grace to the softened and subdued heart of the suffering one. He can direct the thoughts of his patient to the Great Physician. He can present Jesus to the sin-sick soul.CH 342.3
How often the physician is made a confidant, and griefs and trials are laid open before him by the sick. At such a time what precious opportunities are afforded to speak words of comfort and consolation in the fear and love of God, and to impart Christian counsel. Deep love for souls for whom Christ died should imbue the physician. In the fear of God I tell you that none but a Christian physician can rightly discharge the duties of this sacred profession.CH 343.1