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Counsels on Diet and Foods
753. I use a little boiled milk in my simple homemade coffee.—
Letter 73a, 1896
Immoderate Use of Hot and Injurious Drinks
754. Hot drinks are not required, except as a medicine. The
stomach is greatly injured by a large quantity of hot food and hot
drink. Thus the throat and digestive organs, and through them the
other organs of the body, are enfeebled.—
Letter 14, 1901
Part 4—Cider
755. We are living in an age of intemperance, and catering to the
appetite of the ciderbibber is an offense against God. With others, you
have engaged in this work because you have not followed the light.
Had you stood in the light, you would not, you could not, have done
this. Every one of you who has acted a part in this work will come
under the condemnation of God, unless you make an entire change in
your business. You need to be in earnest. You need to commence the
work at once to clear your souls from condemnation....
After you had taken a decided stand in opposition to active partici-
pation in the work of the temperance societies, you might still have
retained an influence over others for good, had you acted conscien-
tiously in accordance with the holy faith which you profess, but by
engaging in the manufacture of cider, you have hurt your influence
very much; and what is worse, you have brought reproach upon the
truth, and your own souls have been injured. You have been build-
ing up a barrier between yourselves and the temperance cause. Your
course led unbelievers to question your principles. You are not making
straight paths for your feet; and the lame are halting and stumbling
over you to perdition.
I cannot see how, in the light of the law of God, Christians can
conscientiously engage in the raising of hops or in the manufacture of
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wine or cider for the market. All these articles may be put to a good
use, and prove a blessing; or they may be put to a wrong use, and prove
a temptation and a curse. Cider and wine may be canned when fresh,
and kept sweet a long time; and if used in an unfermented state, they
will not dethrone reason....—
Testimonies for the Church 5:354-361,
1885