Chapter 3—Cheese
Testimonies for the Church 2:68
Cheese should never be introduced into the stomach.
Testimonies for the Church 3:136
Children are allowed to eat flesh-meats, spices, butter, cheese,
pork, rich pastry and condiments generally. They are also allowed to
eat irregularly and between meals of unhealthful food. These things do
their work of deranging the stomach, exciting the nerves to unnatural
action, and enfeebling the intellect. Parents do not realize that they are
sowing the seed which will bring forth disease and death.
The Ministry of Healing, 302
Butter is less harmful when eaten on cold bread than when used
in cooking, but, as a rule, it is better to dispense with it altogether.
Cheese is still more objectionable; it is wholly unfit for food.
Tract Regarding the Use of Flesh Foods (Eight page tract)
I have a large family which often numbers sixteen. In it there
are men who work at the plow and who fell trees. These men have
vigorous exercise, but not a particle of flesh of animals is placed upon
our table. Meat has not been used by us since the Brighton camp-
meeting. [1894.] It was not my purpose to have it on my table at any
time, but urgent pleas were made that such an one was unable to eat
this or that, and his stomach could take care of meat better than it could
of anything else; then I was enticed to place it on my table. The use of
cheese also began to creep in, because some liked cheese. But I soon
controlled that.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 46-47
Many a mother sets a table that is a snare to her family. Flesh-
meats, butter, cheese, rich pastry, spiced foods, and condiments are
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