Health Foods
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An Evil Work
Some of our brethren have done a work that has wrought great
injury to the cause. The knowledge of methods for the manufacture
of health foods, which God gave to His people as a means of helping
to sustain His cause, these men have disclosed to worldly business
men, who are using it for personal gain. They have sold the Lord’s
goods for personal profit. Those who have thus disclosed the secrets
in their possession in regard to the preparation of health foods have
abused a God-given trust. As they see the result of this betrayal of
trust, some will sorely regret that they did not keep their own counsel,
and wait for the Lord to lead His servants and to work out His own
plans. Some who obtain these secrets will scheme to hedge up the way
of our sanitarium food work, and by misrepresentation will delude to
their injury those who patronize them.
The health-food business should not be borrowed or stolen from
those who, by its management, are endeavoring to build up and ad-
vance the cause. Dr. Kellogg, with the help of others, has, at a large
outlay of means, studied out the processes for the preparation of certain
special foods, and has provided expensive facilities for their manu-
facture. This work has taken a great deal of precious time, for many
experiments have had to be made. And it is right that those who have
thus labored and invested their means, should be allowed to reap the
fruit of their labor. As the Lord’s steward, Dr. Kellogg should be
allowed to control a reasonable income from the special products that
he, by the blessing of God, has been enabled to produce, that he may
have means wherewith to make appropriations for the advancement of
the work of God as occasion may demand. Let no one having learned
the secrets of their composition take up the preparation of these special
foods, and sell them for personal profit. Let no one give the impression
that they are working in harmony with those who in the first place
prepared these foods for sale, when they are not. No one has a right to
engage in the manufacture of these foods in any selfish way. Let us
all come near the Lord, and with humble hearts seek to glorify Him in
every act.
I have a warning for those who have a knowledge of the methods of
manufacturing the special health foods produced in our factories. They
are not to use their knowledge for selfish purposes, or in a way that