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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
to some active employment, it would prove a safeguard against many
of the evil influences that prevail in institutions of learning. Manly,
useful occupations, substituted for frivolous and corrupting diversions,
would give legitimate scope for the exuberance of youthful life, and
would promote sobriety and stability of character. All possible effort
should be made to encourage a desire for moral and physical, as well
as mental improvement. If girls were taught how to cook, especially
how to bake good bread, their education would be of far greater value.
A knowledge of useful labor would prevent, to a great extent, that
sickly sentimentalism which has been and is still ruining thousands.
The exercise of the muscles as well as the brain will encourage taste
for the homely duties of practical life.
The Ministry of Healing, 149
Every church should be a training school for Christian workers. Its
members should be taught how to give Bible readings, how to conduct
and teach Sabbath-school classes, how best to help the poor and to care
for the sick, how to work for the unconverted. There should be schools
of health, cooking schools, and classes in various lines of Christian
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help work. There should not only be teaching, but actual work under
experienced instructors.
The Ministry of Healing, 194
In ministry to the poor there is a wide field of service for women
as well as for men. The efficient cook, the housekeeper, the seam-
stress, the nurse—the help of all is needed. Let the members of poor
households be taught how to cook, how to make and mend their own
clothing, how to nurse the sick, how to care properly for the home.
The Ministry of Healing, 303
Every woman who is at the head of a family and yet does not
understand the art of healthful cookery should determine to learn that
which is so essential to the well-being of her household. In many
places hygienic cooking schools afford opportunity for instruction in
this line. She who has not the help of such facilities should put herself
under the instruction of some good cook, and persevere in her efforts
for improvement until she is mistress of the culinary art.