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this very reason you should become good cooks. Those who can avail
themselves of the advantages of properly conducted hygienic cooking
schools will find it a great benefit both in their own practice and in
teaching others.—
Counsels on Health, 450, 451
.
Often health reform is made health deform by the unpalatable
preparation of food. The lack of knowledge regarding healthful cook-
ery must be remedied before health reform is a success.—
Medical
Ministry, 270
.
Simplicity in Cooking
Greater efforts should be put forth to educate the people in the prin-
ciples of health reform. More cooking schools should be established,
and some should labor from house to house giving instruction in the art
of cooking wholesome food. Parents and their children should learn to
cook more simply than is usually done. The preparation of so many
varied and complex dishes so absorbs the time and attention of many
that they are disqualified to teach the truth as it is in Jesus.—
Letter
279, 1905
.
Many of the views held by Seventh-day Adventists differ widely
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from those held by the world in general. Those who advocate an
unpopular truth should, above all others, seek to be consistent in their
own life. They should not try to see how different they can be from
others, but how near they can come to those whom they wish to in-
fluence, that they may help them to the positions they themselves so
highly prize. Such a course will commend the truths they hold.
Those who are advocating a reform in diet should, by the provision
they make for their own table, present the advantages of hygiene in
the best light. They should so exemplify its principles as to commend
it to the judgment of candid minds....
Decision Without Narrow Conceit
But no one should permit opposition or ridicule to turn him from
the work of reform, or cause him to lightly regard it. He who is
imbued with the spirit which actuated Daniel will not be narrow or
conceited, but he will be firm and decided in standing for the right.
In all his associations, whether with his brethren or with others, he