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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 20, 1872

Our Platform.

[At a meeting of the friends of Reform, held at the Health Reform Institute, Battle Creek, Jan. 1, 1872, this Platform was unanimously adopted.]

1. God, in the creation of man, established laws pertaining to both his moral and physical natures, which, had he always obeyed them, would have given him immunity from sickness, and would have perpetuated his life. Sickness and suffering had their origin in the violation of these laws.

2. As man cannot have eternal life without strict obedience to moral law, so he cannot have deliverance from the terrible bondage of sickness and premature death in this world without strict observance of physical law.

3. The moral and physical natures of man are so intimately related that it is impossible to live in violation of either of these laws without doing violence to the other. Physical law, therefore, in its sphere, is as sacred and binding upon man as moral law.

4. The gospel teaches that man should live healthfully as well as righteously.

5. We recognize in nature the power to restore to health without the aid of medicines. The true Physician supplies conditions: Nature cures.

6. Our materia medica: Good food, pure air, pure, soft water, light, heat, exercise, proper clothing, rest, sleep, moral and social influence.

7. Our motto: Temperance in all things. Not only in eating, drinking, and in labor, but in everything that tends to exhaust the vitality of the system.

8. It has been well said: “A contented mind is a continual feast.” A well-founded trust in God is the best and surest promoter of cheerfulness of mind; and without this all other means, may fail.—Health Reformer.