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make her comfortable. She has borne a burden which has been galling
to bear.
Testimonies for the Church 2:374-375
And while we would caution you not to overeat, even of the best
quality of food, we would also caution those that are extremists not to
raise a false standard, and then endeavor to bring everybody to it.
Testimonies for the Church 2:384
I was shown that both B and C have dishonored the cause of God.
They have brought upon it a stain which will never be fully wiped out.
I was shown the family of our dear Bro. D. If this brother had received
proper help at the right time, every member of his family would have
been alive today. It is a wonder that the laws of the land have not been
enforced in this instance of maltreatment. That family were perishing
for food—the plainest, simplest food. They were starving in a land
of plenty. A novice was practicing upon them. The young man did
not die of disease, but of hunger. Food would have strengthened the
system, and kept the machinery in motion.
Testimonies for the Church 2:386-387
It is time that something was done to prevent novices from taking
the field and advocating health reform. Their works and words can be
spared; for they do more injury than the wisest and most intelligent
men, with the best influence they can exert, can counteract. It is
impossible for the best qualified advocates of health reform to fully
relieve the minds of the public from the prejudice received through
the wrong course of these extremists, and to place the great subject
of health reform upon a right basis in the community where these
men have figured. The door is also closed in a great measure, so that
unbelievers cannot be reached by the present truth upon the Sabbath
and the soon coming of our Saviour. The most precious truths are
cast aside by the people as unworthy of a hearing. These men are
referred to as representatives of health reformers and Sabbath-keepers
in general. A great responsibility rests upon those who have thus
proved a stumbling-block to unbelievers.