Eggs
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God will give His people ability and tact to prepare wholesome
food without these things. Let our people discard all unwholesome
recipes.
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 meat. In some ailments the use of eggs is very
beneficial.
Letter K 37, 1904
When a letter came to me from Cooranbong, saying that Dr.---
--was dying, I was that night instructed that he must have a change
of diet. A raw egg, taken two or three times a day, would give the
nourishment that he greatly needed.
Testimonies for the Church 2:362
You should be teaching your children. You should be instructing
them how to shun the vices and corruptions of this age. Instead of
this, many are studying how to get something good to eat. You place
upon your tables butter, eggs, and meat, and your children partake of
them. They are fed with the very things that will excite their animal
passions, and then you come to meeting and ask God to bless and save
your children. How high do your prayers go? You have a work to do
first. When you have done all for your children which God has left for
you to do, then you can with confidence claim the special help that
God has promised to give you.
Testimonies for the Church 9:162
While warnings have been given regarding the dangers of disease
through butter, and the evil of the free use of eggs by small children,
yet we should not consider it a violation of principle to use eggs from
hens that are well cared for and suitably fed. Eggs contain properties
that are remedial agencies in counteracting certain poisons.
Some, in abstaining from milk, eggs, and butter, have failed to
supply the system with proper nourishment, and as a consequence have