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Christian Service
Cooking Schools
I have been instructed to encourage the conducting of cooking
schools in all places where medical missionary work is being done.
Every inducement to lead people to reform must be held out before
them. Let as much light as possible shine upon them. Teach them to
make every improvement that they can in the preparation of food, and
encourage them to impart to others that which they learn.—
Gospel
Workers, 362, 363
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Cooking schools are to be held. The people are to be taught how to
prepare wholesome food. They are to be shown the need of discarding
unhealthful foods. But we should never advocate a starvation diet. It
is possible to have a wholesome, nutritious diet without the use of tea,
coffee, and flesh food. The work of teaching the people how to prepare
a dietary that is at once wholesome and appetizing, is of the utmost
importance.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:112
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A Timely Message
I cannot too strongly urge all our church members, all who are
true missionaries, all who believe the third angel’s message, all who
turn away their feet from the Sabbath, to consider the message of the
fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. The work of beneficence enjoined in this
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chapter is the work that God requires His people to do at this time. It
is a work of His own appointment. We are not left in doubt as to where
the message applies, and the time of its marked fulfillment, for we
read: “They that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be
called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”
God’s memorial, the seventh-day Sabbath, the sign of His work
in creating the world, has been displaced by the man of sin. God’s
people have a special work to do in repairing the breach that has been
made in His law; and the nearer we approach the end, the more urgent
this work becomes. All who love God will show that they bear His
sign by keeping His commandments. They are the restorers of paths to
dwell in.... Genuine medical missionary work is bound up inseparably
with the keeping of God’s commandments, of which the Sabbath is
especially mentioned, since it is the great memorial of God’s creative