Cooking Schools
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the preparation of healthful, inexpensive foods. Thus the poor will
be encouraged to adopt the principles of health reform; they will be
helped to become industrious and self-reliant.
It has been presented to me that men and women of capability
were being taught of God how to prepare wholesome, palatable foods
in an acceptable manner. Many of these were young, and there were
also those of mature age. I have been instructed to encourage the
conducting of cooking-schools in all places where medical missionary
work is being done. Every inducement to lead the people to reform
must be held out before them. Let as much light as possible shine
upon them. Teach them to make every improvement that they can in
the preparation of food, and encourage them to impart to others that
which they learn.
Shall we not do all in our power to advance the work in all of our
large cities? Thousands upon thousands who live near us need help in
various ways. Let the ministers of the gospel remember that the Lord
Jesus Christ said to His disciples: “Ye are the light of the world. A
city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.” “Ye are the salt of the earth; but
if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?”
Matthew
5:14, 13
.
The Lord Jesus will work miracles for His people. In the sixteenth
of Mark we read: “So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, He
was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And
they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them,
and confirming the word with signs following.”
Verses 19, 20
. Here
we are assured that the Lord was qualifying His chosen servants to
take up medical missionary work after His ascension.
From the record of the Lord’s miracles in providing wine at the
wedding feast and in feeding the multitude, we may learn a lesson of
the highest importance. The health food business is one of the Lord’s
own instrumentalities to supply a necessity. The heavenly Provider
of all foods will not leave His people in ignorance in regard to the
preparation of the best foods for all times and occasions.
Testimonies for the Church 5:90
If facilities for manual labor were provided in connection with our
school, and students were required to devote a portion of their time