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Food on Our Tables
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to obey the laws of God, both in nature and revelation, instead of
following the customs of the world.
Painstaking effort, prayer and faith, when united with a correct
example, will not be fruitless. Bring your children to God in faith,
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and seek to impress their susceptible minds with a sense of their
obligations to their heavenly Father. It will require lesson upon
lesson, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a
little.—
The Review and Herald, November 6, 1883
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Half the Mothers Deplorably Ignorant
—Not one half the
mothers know how to cook or what to set before their children.
They place before their little nervous children these rich substances
that burn in the throat and all the way down to the tender coats of
the stomach, making it like a burnt boot, so it does not recognize
healthful food. The little ones will come to the table, and they cannot
eat this, or they cannot eat that. They take control and get just what
they want whether it is for their good or not.
I would recommend letting them go without for at least three
days until they are hungry enough to enjoy good wholesome food.
I would risk their starving. I have never placed on my table things
which I did not allow my children to partake of. I would place before
them just what I myself would eat. The children would eat of this
food and never think of asking for things not on the table. We should
not indulge the appetite of our children by placing before them these
rich foods.—
Manuscript 3, 1888
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Paving the Way for Intemperance
—The tables of our Ameri-
can people are generally prepared in a manner to make drunkards.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:563
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Those who believe present truth should refuse to drink tea or
coffee, for these excite a desire for stronger stimulant. They should
refuse to eat flesh meat, for this, too, excites a desire for strong drink.
Wholesome food, prepared with taste and skill, should be our diet
now.—
Evangelism, 265
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Meat Stimulates
—The immediate results of meat eating may
be apparently to invigorate the system, but this is no reason for its
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being considered the best article of diet. The moderate use of brandy
will have the same effect for the time being, but when its exciting
influence is gone there follows a sense of languor and debility. Those
who depend upon simple and nutritious food, that is comparatively