Restaurants in Large Cities
[
Testimonies for the Church 7:54-56
(1902).]
While in New York in the winter of 1901, I received light in regard
to the work in that great city. Night after night the course that our
brethren should pursue passed before me. In Greater New York the
message is to go forth as a lamp that burneth. God will raise up laborers
for this work, and His angels will go before them. Though our large
cities are fast reaching a condition similar to the condition of the world
before the Flood, though they are as Sodom for wickedness, yet there
are in them many honest souls who, as they listen to the startling truths
of the advent message, will feel the conviction of the Spirit. New York
is ready to be worked. In that great city the message of truth will be
given with the power of God. The Lord calls for workmen. He calls
upon those who have gained an experience in the cause to take up
and carry forward in His fear the work to be done in New York and
in other large cities of America. He calls also for means to be used in
this work.
It was presented to me that we should not rest satisfied because
we have a vegetarian restaurant in Brooklyn, but that others should be
established in other sections of the city. The people living in one part
of Greater New York do not know what is going on in other parts of
that great city. Men and women who eat at the restaurants established
in different places will become conscious of an improvement in health.
Their confidence once gained, they will be more ready to accept God’s
special message of truth.
Wherever medical missionary work is carried on in our large cities,
cooking schools should be held; and wherever a strong educational
missionary work is in progress, a hygienic restaurant of some sort
should be established, which shall give a practical illustration of the
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proper selection and the healthful preparation of foods.
When in Los Angeles, I was instructed that not only in various
sections of that city, but in San Diego and in other tourist resorts of
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