Chapter 12—Eggs
Letter K 37, 1901
Do not go to extremes in regard to the health reform. Some of our
people are very careless in regard to health reform. But because some
are far behind, you must not, in order to be an example to them, be an
extremist. You must not deprive yourself of that class of food which
makes good blood. Your devotion to true principles is leading you to
submit yourself to a diet which is giving you an experience that will
not recommend health reform. This is your danger. When you see
that you are becoming weak physically, it is essential for you to make
changes, and at once. Put into your diet something you have left out.
It is your duty to do this. Get eggs of healthy fowls. Use these eggs
cooked or raw. Drop them uncooked into the best unfermented wine
you can find. This will supply that which is necessary to your system.
Do not for a moment suppose that it will not be right to do this....
The time will come when milk cannot be used as freely as it is now
used; but the present is not the time to discard it. And eggs contain
properties which are remedial agencies in counteracting poisons. And
while warnings have been given against the use of these articles of diet
in families where the children were addicted to, yes, steeped in habits
of self abuse, yet we should not consider it a denial of principle to use
eggs of hens which are well cared for and suitably fed....
But I wish to say that when the time comes that it is no longer safe
to use milk, cream, butter, and eggs, God will reveal this. No extremes
in health reform are to be advocated. The question of using milk and
butter and eggs will work out its own problem. At present we have no
burden on this line. Let your moderation be known unto all men.
I have something to say in reference to extreme views of health re-
form. Health reform becomes health deform, a health destroyer, when
it is carried to extremes. You will not be successful in sanitariums,
where the sick are treated, if you prescribe for the patients the same
diet you have prescribed for yourself and your wife. I assure you that
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your ideas in regard to diet for the sick are not advisable. The change
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