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Section 15—Diet and Health
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There are many to whom the supper hour has been the most
cheerful hour of the day. Then it is that all the family, the day’s work
done, have gathered round the table for social intercourse.
It is plain that two meals a day are better than three. I believe and
practice this, but I have no “Thus saith the Lord” that it is wrong for
some to eat the third meal. We are not to be as the Pharisees, bound
about by set rules and regulations. God’s word has not specified any
set hours when food should be eaten. We are to be careful not to
make laws like the laws of the Pharisees, or to teach for doctrines
the commandments of men.
Let your regulations be so consistent that they will appeal to the
reason of those even who have not been educated to see all things
clearly. As you strive to introduce the renovating, transforming
principles of truth into the life practice of those who come to the san-
itarium to gain improvement in health, let them see that no arbitrary
exactions are laid on them. Give them no reason to feel that they are
compelled to follow a course that they do not choose.—
Letter 213,
1902
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No Flesh-Meat on Sanitarium Tables
I have been plainly instructed by the Lord that flesh-meat should
not be placed before the patients in our sanitarium dining rooms.
Light was given me that the patients could have flesh-meat if, after
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hearing the parlor lectures, they still urged us to give it to them;
but that, in such cases, it must be eaten in their own rooms. All
the helpers are to discard flesh-meat. But, as stated before, if, after
knowing that the flesh of animals cannot be placed on the dining-
room tables, a few patients urge that they must have meat, cheerfully
give it to them in their rooms....
A Liberal Variety
Let the food be palatably prepared and nicely served. More
dishes will have to be prepared than would be necessary if flesh-
meat was served. Other things can be provided, so that meats can be
discarded. Milk and cream can be used by some.