Milk and Cream
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Testimonies for the Church 2:369
Animals from which milk is obtained are not always healthy. They
may be diseased. A cow may be apparently well in the morning, and
die before night. Then she was diseased in the morning, and her milk
was diseased, but you did not know it. The animal creation is diseased.
The Ministry of Healing, 302
Especially harmful are the custards and puddings in which milk,
eggs, and sugar are the chief ingredients. The free use of milk and
sugar taken together should be avoided.
If milk is used, it should be thoroughly sterilized; with this precau-
tion, there is less danger of contracting disease from its use.
Letter K 37, 1901
We are to be brought into connection with the masses. Should
health reform be taught them in its most extreme form, harm would
be done. We ask them to leave off eating meat and drinking tea and
coffee. That is well. But some say that milk also should be given up.
This is a subject that needs to be carefully handled. There are poor
families whose diet consists of bread and milk, and, if they can get it,
a little fruit. All flesh-food should be discarded, but vegetables should
be made palatable with a little milk or cream or something equivalent.
The poor say, when health reform is presented to them, “What shall we
eat? We can not afford to buy the nut foods.” As I preach the gospel
to the poor, I am instructed to tell them to eat that food which is most
nourishing. I can not say to them, “You must not eat eggs or milk
or cream. You must use no butter in the preparation of food.” The
gospel must be preached to the poor, and the time has not yet come to
prescribe the strictest diet.
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
my message is that you must not bring yourself to a time of trouble
beforehand, and thus afflict yourself with death. Wait till the Lord
prepares the way before you.
I assure you that your ideas in regard to diet for the sick are not
advisable. The change is too great. While I would discard flesh-meat
as injurious, something less objectionable may be used, and this is