Hygienic Restaurants
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There should also be a restaurant in which healthful dishes are prepared
and served in an inviting manner. This will prove an education to many
not of our faith. Let not this line of work be looked upon as separate
from other lines of camp-meeting work. Each line of God’s work is
closely united with every other line, and all are to advance in perfect
harmony.
Testimonies for the Church 7:55-57
It was presented to me that we should not rest satisfied because
we have a vegetarian restaurant in Brooklyn, but that others should be
established in other sections of the city. The people living in one part
of Greater New York do not know what is going on in other parts of
that great city. Men and women who eat at the restaurants established
in different places will become conscious of an improvement in health.
Their confidence once gained, they will be more ready to accept God’s
special message of truth.
Wherever medical missionary work is carried on in our large cities,
cooking-schools should be held; and wherever a strong educational
missionary work is in progress, a hygienic restaurant of some sort
should be established, which shall give a practical illustration of the
proper selection and the healthful preparation of foods.
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When in Los Angeles, I was instructed that not only in various
sections of that city, but in San Diego, and in other tourist resorts of
Southern California, health restaurants and treatment-rooms should be
established. Our efforts in these lines should include the great seaside
resorts. As the voice of John the Baptist was heard in the wilderness,
“Prepare ye the way of the Lord,” so must the voice of the Lord’s
messengers be heard in the great tourist and seaside resorts....
Let schools and sanitariums now be established in many places
in the Southern states. Let centers of influence be made in many
of the Southern cities by the opening of food stores and vegetarian
restaurants. Let there also be facilities for the manufacture of simple,
inexpensive health foods. But let not selfish, worldly policy be brought
into the work; for God forbids this. Let unselfish men take hold of this
work in the fear of God, and with love for their fellow-men.