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Faithfulness in Health Reform
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I use some salt, and always have, because salt, instead of being
deleterious, is actually essential for the blood. Vegetables should be
made palatable with a little milk or cream, or something equivalent.
While warnings have been given regarding the dangers of disease
through butter, and the evil of the free use of eggs by small children,
yet we should not consider it a violation of principle to use eggs from
hens that are well cared for and suitably fed. Eggs contain properties
that are remedial agencies in counteracting certain poisons.
Some, in abstaining from milk, eggs, and butter, have failed to
supply the system with proper nourishment, and as a consequence
have become weak and unable to work. Thus health reform is
brought into disrepute. The work that we have tried to build up
solidly is confused with strange things that God has not required,
and the energies of the church are crippled. But God will interfere
to prevent the results of these too strenuous ideas. The gospel is to
harmonize the sinful race. It is to bring the rich and poor together at
the feet of Jesus.
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the
articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but
it is not necessary to bring upon ourselves perplexity by premature
and extreme restrictions. Wait until the circumstances demand it and
the Lord prepares the way for it.
Those who would be successful in proclaiming the principles of
health reform must make the word of God their guide and counselor.
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Only as the teachers of health reform principles do this can they
stand on vantage ground. Let us never bear a testimony against
health reform by failing to use wholesome, palatable food in place
of the harmful articles of diet that we have discarded. Do not in any
way encourage an appetite for stimulants. Eat only plain, simple,
wholesome food, and thank God constantly for the principles of
health reform. In all things be true and upright, and you will gain
precious victories.
Diet in Different Countries
While working against gluttony and intemperance, we must
recognize the condition to which the human family is subjected.
God has made provision for those who live in the different countries