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simple, and appetizing. This is the science that every sanitarium and
health restaurant is to teach.
We are to teach the people how to prepare dishes that are not
expensive, but wholesome and palatable. And never is a recipe to
appear in our health journals that will injure our reputation as health
reformers.—
Letter 201, 1902
.
Keep Close to the People—We must go no faster than we can
take those with us whose consciences and intellects are convinced
of the truths we advocate. We must meet the people where they are.
Some of us have been many years in arriving at our present position
in health reform. It is slow work to obtain a reform in diet. We have
powerful appetites to meet; for the world is given to gluttony. If we
should allow the people as much time as we have required to come up
to the present advanced state in reform, we would be very patient with
them, and allow them to advance step by step, as we have done, until
their feet are firmly established upon the health-reform platform. But
we should be very cautious not to advance too fast, lest we be obliged
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to retrace our steps. In reforms, we would better come one step short
of the mark than to go one step beyond it. And if there is error at all,
let it be on the side next to the people.
Above all things, we should not with our pens advocate positions
that we do not put to a practical test in our own families, upon our own
tables. This is dissimulation, a species of hypocrisy.—
Testimonies for
the Church 3:20-21
(1872).
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