Chapter 25—Hygienic Restaurants
Manuscript 27, 1906
When the state fair was held in Battle Creek,
our people took with them onto the grounds three or four cooking
stoves, and demonstrated how good meals might be prepared without
the use of flesh-meat. We were told that we set the best table on the
ground. Whenever large gatherings are held, it is your privilege to de-
vise plans whereby you can provide those who attend with wholesome
food, and you are to make your efforts educational.
The Lord gave us favor with the people, and we had many won-
derful opportunities to demonstrate what could be done through the
principles of health reform to restore to health those whose cases had
been pronounced hopeless....
Light was also given that in the cities there would be opportunity
to do a work similar to that which we did on the Battle Creek fair
grounds. In harmony with this light, hygienic restaurants have been
established. But there is grave danger that our restaurant workers will
become so imbued with the spirit of commercialism that they will fail
to impart the light which the people need. Our restaurants bring us in
contact with many people, but if we allow our minds to be engrossed
with the thought of financial profit, we shall fail to fulfill the purpose
of God. He would have us take advantage of every opportunity to
present the truth that is to save men and women from eternal death.
I have tried to ascertain how many souls have been converted to
the truth as a result of the restaurant work here in-----. Some may have
been saved, but many more might be converted to God if every effort
were made to conduct the work in God’s order, and to let light shine
into the pathway of others.
I would say to the workers connected with the restaurant, Do
not continue to work as you have been working. Seek to make the
restaurant a means of communicating to others the light of present
truth. For this purpose only have our restaurants been established....
The workers in the-----restaurant and the members of the-----
church need to be thoroughly converted. To every one has been given
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