Butter
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Testimonies for the Church 2:362
You should be teaching your children. You should be instructing
them how to shun the vices and corruptions of this age. Instead of
this, many are studying how to get something good to eat. You place
upon your tables butter, eggs and meat, and your children partake of
them. They are fed with the very things that will excite their animal
passions and then you come to meeting and ask God to bless and save
your children. How high do your prayers go? You have a work to do
first. When you have done all for your children which God has left for
you to do, then you can with confidence claim the special help that
God has promised to give you.
Testimonies for the Church 3:136
Children are allowed to eat flesh-meats, spices, butter, cheese,
pork, rich pastry, and condiments generally. They are also allowed to
eat irregularly and between meals of unhealthful food. These things do
their work of deranging the stomach, exciting the nerves to unnatural
action, and enfeebling the intellect. Parents do not realize that they are
sowing the seed which will bring forth disease and death.
Testimonies for the Church 9:162
While warnings have been given regarding the dangers of disease
through butter, and the evil of the free use of eggs by small children,
yet we should not consider it a violation of principle to use eggs from
hens that are well cared for and suitably fed. Eggs contain properties
that are remedial agencies in counteracting certain poisons.
Some, in abstaining from milk, eggs and butter, have failed to
supply the system with proper nourishment, and as a consequence have
become weak and unable to work. Thus health reform is brought into
disrepute. The work that we have tried to build up solidly is confused
with strange things that God has not required, and the energies of the
church are crippled. But God will interfere to prevent the results of
these too strenuous ideas. The gospel is to harmonize the sinful race.
It is to bring the rich and poor together at the feet of Jesus.