Phrase - Alcohol ( Effect of Alcohol )
Quotations from the writings of Ellen G. White with the phrase . . .
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Alcohol and tobacco pollute the blood of men, and thousands of lives are yearly sacrificed to these poisons. Confinement indoors, shut away from the glorious sunshine, and deprived of the invigorating air of heaven, improper eating, with wrong habits of dressing, corrupt the blood of women. The compression of the waist by tight-lacing prevents the waste matter from being thrown off through its natural channels. The most important of these is the lungs. In order for the lungs to do the work God designed, they must be left free, without the slightest compression. If the lungs are cramped they cannot develop; but their capacity will be diminished, making it impossible to take a sufficient inspiration of air. The abdominal muscles were designed to aid the lungs in their action. Where there is no compression of the lungs, the motion in full breathing will be observed to be mostly of the abdomen. When lacing prevents this, the breathing is restricted to the upper portion of the lungs. Women's dress should be arranged so loosely upon the person, about the waist, that she can breath without the least obstruction. Her arms should be left perfectly free, that she may raise them above her head with ease. {RH, October 31, 1871 par. 22} {HR, November 1, 1871 par. 22} |
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Instruction in this line should be given in every school and in every home. The youth and children should understand the effect of alcohol, tobacco, and other like poisons in breaking down the body, beclouding the mind, and sensualizing the soul. It should be made plain that no one who uses these things can long possess the full strength of his physical, mental, or moral faculties. {CG 408.4} |
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Intemperance is a foe against which all need to be guarded. The rapid increase of this terrible evil should arouse every lover of his race to warfare against it. The practice of giving instruction on temperance topics in the schools is a move in the right direction. Instruction in this line should be given in every school and in every home. The youth and children should understand the effect of alcohol, tobacco, and other like poisons in breaking down the body, beclouding the mind, and sensualizing the soul. It should be made plain that no one who uses these things can long possess the full strength of his physical, mental, or moral faculties. {Ed 202.2} |
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DURING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1865 THIS SERIES WAS COMPLETED. THESE HEALTH PAMPHLETS, SIX IN NUMBER, CONTAINED ARTICLES FROM MRS. WHITE ON "DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES," AND ON ALLIED SUBJECTS; AND MANY EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF VARIOUS PHYSICIANS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN HEALTH REFORM PRINCIPLES. HYGIENIC RECIPES WERE INCLUDED, ALSO HINTS ON THE USE OF WATER AS A REMEDIAL AGENCY. THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, TEA AND COFFEE, SPICES, AND OTHER STIMULANTS AND NARCOTICS, WERE FURTHER EMPHASIZED. {LS 167.4} |
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Lives Are Sacrificed.-- Alcohol and tobacco pollute the blood of men, and thousands of lives are yearly sacrificed to these poisons.-- Health Reformer, November, 1871. {Te 57.4} |
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On an autumn evening we were once traveling in a crowded car, where the atmosphere was rendered very impure by the mingling of so many breaths. The exhalations from lungs and bodies caused a most sickening sensation to come over me. I raised my window and was enjoying the fresh air, when a lady, in earnest, imploring tones, cried out: "Do put down that window. You will take cold and be sick, for the night air is so unhealthy." I replied: "Madam, we have no other air, in this car or out of it, but night air. If you refuse to breathe night air, then you must stop breathing. God has provided for His creatures air to breathe for the day, and the same, made a little cooler, for the night. In the night it is not possible for you to breathe anything but night air. The question is: Shall the night air we breathe be pure, or is it improved after it has been breathed over and over? Is it for our health to breathe the polluted night air of this car? The exhalations thrown off by the lungs and bodies of men steeped in tobacco and alcohol, pollute the air and endanger health; and yet nearly all the passengers sit as indifferent as though inhaling the purest atmosphere. God has wisely provided for us, that in the night we should breathe night air, and in the day, the air of the day. If we fail to answer the plan of God, and the blood becomes impure, our wrong habits have made it thus. But the air of night, breathed in the night, will not of itself poison the current of human life." Many are suffering from disease because they refuse to receive into their rooms at night the pure night air. The free, pure air of heaven is one of the richest blessings we can enjoy. {2T 527.3} |
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