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Counsels on Diet and Foods
entered upon with great success. I tell you this because I know that
you are in positive danger. Food should be prepared in such a way that
it will be nourishing. It should not be robbed of that which the system
needs.
The Lord calls upon Brother and Sister-----to reform, to take pe-
riods of rest. It is not right for you to take burdens as you have done
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in the past. Unless you take heed, you will sacrifice that life which is
so precious in the sight of the Lord. “Ye are not your own; for ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God’s.” ...
Do not go to extremes in regard to the health reform. Some of our
people are very careless in regard to health reform. But because some
are far behind, you must not, in order to be an example to them, be an
extremist. You must not deprive yourself of that class of food which
makes good blood. Your devotion to true principles is leading you to
submit yourself to a diet which is giving you an experience that will
not recommend health reform. This is your danger. When you see
that you are becoming weak physically, it is essential for you to make
changes, and at once. Put into your diet something you have left out.
It is your duty to do this. Get eggs of healthy fowls. Use these eggs
cooked or raw. Drop them uncooked into the best unfermented wine
you can find. This will supply that which is necessary to your system.
Do not for a moment suppose that it will not be right to do this....
We appreciate your experience as a physician, and yet I say that
milk and eggs should be included in your diet. These things cannot at
present be dispensed with, and the doctrine of dispensing with them
should not be taught.
You are in danger of taking too radical a view of health reform,
and of prescribing for yourself a diet that will not sustain you....
I do hope that you will heed the words I have spoken to you. It
has been presented to me that you will not be able to exert the most
successful influence in health reform unless in some things you become
more liberal to yourself and to others. The time will come when milk
cannot be used as freely as it is now used; but the present time is not
the time to discard it. And eggs contain properties which are remedial
agencies in counteracting poisons. And while warnings have been
given against the use of these articles of diet in families where the
children were addicted to, yes, steeped in, habits of self-abuse; yet we