Sensible Suggestions

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 20, 1879

Sensible Suggestions.

If you wish to be healthy, follow nature's laws, eat nature's food, drink nature's drink, and you need not reduce it to a compound extract, unless you have become a compound extract yourself; then it may be consistent to use it in that form. Does nature dictate to man to expose himself to extreme cold or heat, to unusual hunger or fatigue? If it did there would no evil follow. Nature's laws are perfect, and are attended with consequences which are certain. When you violate them and bring on disease, you then send for a physician. He gives compound extracts, and if you die the Lord gets the blame! if you get well the doctor gets the credit. Nature, the true physician, that did all the work, gets nothing. Follow the dictates of nature, never eat that which hurts you, never drink any thing that injures you, never exhaust or over-heat yourself, never submit yourself to extremes, and you will not be liable to need any other doctor's assistance.