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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Those thus helped can in turn instruct others. Such a work will yet
be done with consecrated zeal and energy. If it had been done before,
there would today be many more people in the truth, and many more
who could give instruction. Let us learn what our duty is, and then do
it. We are not to be dependent and helpless, waiting for others to do
the work that God has committed to us.
Manuscript 40, 1902
To many in different places the Lord will give intelligence in regard
to health foods. He can spread a table in the wilderness. Health foods
should be prepared by our churches who are trying to practice the
principles of health reform. But as surely as they should do this, some
would say that they were infringing on their rights. But who gave
them the wisdom to prepare these foods?—the God of heaven. That
same God will give wisdom to His people in the different countries
to use the productions of these countries in preparing health foods.
In simple, inexpensive ways, our people are to experiment with the
fruits and grains and roots in the countries in which they live. In the
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different countries inexpensive health foods are to be manufactured
for the benefit of the poor and for the benefit of the families of our own
people.
The message that God has given me is that His people in foreign
lands are not to depend for their supply of health foods on the importa-
tions of health foods from America. The freight and the duty make the
cost of these foods so high that the poor, who are just as precious in
the sight of God, as the wealthy, can not have the advantage of them.
Health foods are God’s productions, and He will teach His people
in missionary fields so to combine the productions of the earth that
simple, inexpensive, wholesome foods will be provided. If they will
seek wisdom from God, He will teach them how to plan and devise to
utilize these productions. I am instructed to say, Forbid them not.
Manuscript 78, 1902
I must now give to my brethren the instruction that the Lord has
given me in regard to the health food question. By many the health
foods are looked upon us of man’s devising, but they are of God’s
originating, as a blessing to His people. The health food work is the