Preparation of Healthful Foods
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other countries. Great difficulty will be found in handling the imported
goods without financial loss.
All who handle the health foods are to work unselfishly for the
benefit of their fellow men. Unless men allow the Lord to guide their
minds, untold difficulties will arise as different ones engage in this
work. When the Lord gives one skill and understanding, let that one
remember that this wisdom was not given for his benefit only, but that
with it he might help others.
Knowledge to Be Imparted to Others
No man is to think that he is the possessor of all knowledge re-
garding the preparation of health foods, or that he has the sole right
to use the Lord’s treasures of earth and tree in this work. No man is
to feel free to use according to his own pleasure the knowledge God
has given him on this subject. “Freely ye have received, freely give.”
Matthew 10:8
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It is our wisdom to prepare simple, inexpensive, healthful foods.
Many of our people are poor, and healthful foods are to be provided
that can be supplied at prices that the poor can afford to pay. It is the
Lord’s design that the poorest people in every place shall be supplied
with inexpensive, healthful foods. In many places industries for the
manufacture of these foods are to be established. That which is a
blessing to the work in one place will be a blessing in another place
where money is very much harder to obtain.
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God is working in behalf of His people. He does not desire them
to be without resources. He is bringing them back to the diet originally
given to man. Their diet is to consist of the foods made from the
materials He has provided. The materials principally used in these
foods will be fruits and grains and nuts, but various roots will also be
used.
The profits on these foods are to come principally from the world,
rather than from the Lord’s people. God’s people have to sustain
His work; they have to enter new fields and establish churches. On
them rest the burdens of many missionary enterprises. No unnecessary
burdens are to be placed upon them. To His people God is a present
help in every time of need.