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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
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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
will misrepresent the cause. Neither are they to make this knowledge
public. Let the churches take hold of this and show these brethren that
such a course is a betrayal of trust and that it will bring reproach on
the cause.
Let not those who have been and are employed in the work of
making the health foods first prepared by Dr. Kellogg, or by any other
pioneer in this work, disclose to others the secrets of the manufacture
of the special foods; for thus they defraud the cause of that which
should be used for its advancement. I beseech you, my brethren, to
make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned out of the
way. Do not place information in the hands of those who, from lack of
conscientious regard for health reform, may place impure articles on
the market as health foods.