Eating Between Meals
81
and thus give nature a chance to rally. Our laborers could do more by
their example to advance health reform than by preaching it. When
elaborate preparations are made for them by well-meaning friends,
they are strongly tempted to disregard principle; but by refusing the
[39]
dainty dishes, the rich condiments, the tea and coffee, they may prove
themselves to be practical health reformers. Some are now suffering
in consequence of transgressing the laws of life, thus causing a stigma
to rest on the cause of health reform.
Testimonies for the Church 2:602
Brethren and sisters must not be sick upon the encampment. If
they clothe themselves properly in the chill of morning and night, and
are particular to vary their clothing according to the changing weather,
so as to preserve proper circulation, and strictly observe regularity in
sleeping and in eating of simple food, taking nothing between meals,
they need not be sick.
Gospel Workers, 174 (Old edition)
Another cause both of ill health and inefficiency in labor, is indi-
gestion. It is impossible for the brain to do its work when the digestive
powers are abused. Many eat hurriedly of various kinds of food, which
set up a war in the stomach, and thus confuse the brain. The use of
unhealthful food, and overeating of even that which is wholesome,
should alike be avoided. Many eat at all hours, regardless of the laws
of health. Then gloom covers the mind. How can men be honored
with divine enlightenment, when they are so reckless in their habits, so
inattentive to the light which God has given in regard to these things?
Brethren, is it not time for you to be converted on these points of
selfish indulgence? “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all,
but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every
man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they
do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore
so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any
means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
(
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
.) Study this solemnly.