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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
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.
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the
articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but it
is not necessary to bring upon ourselves perplexity by premature and
extreme restrictions. Wait until the circumstances demand it, and the
Lord prepares the way for it.
Testimonies for the Church 7:135
Milk, eggs, and butter should not be classed with flesh-meat. In
some cases the use of eggs is beneficial. The time has not come to say
that the use of milk and eggs should be wholly discarded. There are
poor families whose diet consists largely of bread and milk. They have
little fruit, and can not afford to purchase the nut foods. In teaching
health reform, as in all other gospel work, we are to meet the people
where they are. Until we can teach them how to prepare health-reform
foods that are palatable, nourishing, and yet inexpensive, we are not
at liberty to present the most advanced propositions regarding health-
reform diet.
Let the diet reform be progressive. Let the people be taught how
to prepare food without the use of milk or butter. Tell them that the
time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk,
cream, or butter, because disease in animals is increasing in proportion
to the increase of wickedness among men. The time is near when,
because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal creation
will groan under the diseases that curse our earth.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 79)
Meat eating is doing its work, for the meat is diseased. We may
not long be able to use even milk.
Letter B 135, 1902
The time has not yet come when I can say that the use of milk and
of eggs should be wholly discontinued. Milk and eggs should not be
classed with flesh-meats. In some ailments the use of eggs is very
beneficial.