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Counsels on Health
In certain cases of illness or exhaustion it may be thought best to use
some meat, but great care should be taken to secure the flesh of healthy
animals. It has come to be a very serious question whether it is safe to
use flesh food at all in this age of the world. It would be better never
to eat meat than to use the flesh of animals that are not healthy....
Again and again I have been shown that God is trying to lead us
back, step by step, to His original design—that man should subsist
upon the natural products of the earth. Among those who are waiting
for the coming of the Lord, meat eating will eventually be done away;
flesh will cease to form a part of their diet. We should ever keep this
end in view, and endeavor to work steadily toward it....
A Knowledge of Healthful Cooking
One reason why many have become discouraged in practicing
health reform is that they have not learned how to cook so that proper
food, simply prepared, would supply the place of the diet to which
they have been accustomed. They become disgusted with the poorly
prepared dishes, and next we hear them say that they have tried the
health reform and cannot live in that way. Many attempt to follow out
meager instructions in health reform and make such sad work that it
results in injury to digestion and in discouragement to all concerned in
the attempt. You profess to be health reformers, and for this very reason
you should become good cooks. Those who can avail themselves of
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the advantages of properly conducted hygienic cooking schools will
find it a great benefit both in their own practice and in teaching others.
Teach Wisely and by Example
Do not catch hold of isolated ideas and make them a test, criticizing
others whose practice may not agree with your opinion; but study the
subject broadly and deeply, and seek to bring your own ideas and
practices into perfect harmony with the principles of true Christian
temperance.
There are many who try to correct the lives of others by attacking
what they regard as wrong habits. They go to those whom they think
in error and point out their defects, but do not seek to direct the mind
to true principles. Such a course often comes far short of securing