Avoid False Standards
While we would caution you not to overeat, even of the best quality
of food, we would also caution those that are extremists not to raise a
false standard and then endeavor to bring everybody to it. There are
some who are starting out as health reformers who are not fit to engage
in any other enterprise, and who have not sense enough to take care of
their own families or keep their proper place in the church. And what
do they do? Why, they fall back as health-reform physicians, as though
they could make that a success. They assume the responsibilities of
their practice and take the lives of men and women into their hands,
when they really know nothing about the business.—
Testimonies for
the Church 2:374, 375
(1869).
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