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Counsels on Diet and Foods
extreme restrictions. Wait until the circumstances demand it, and the
Lord prepares the way for it.
Those who would be successful in proclaiming the principles of
health reform must make the word of God their guide and counselor.
Only as the teachers of health reform principles do this, can they stand
on vantage ground. Let us never bear a testimony against health reform
by failing to use wholesome, palatable food in place of the harmful
articles of diet that we have discarded. Do not in any way encourage an
appetite for stimulants. Eat only plain, simple, wholesome food, and
thank God constantly for the principles of health reform. In all things
be true and upright, and you will gain precious victories.—
Testimonies
for the Church 9:161-163, 1909
Harmful Influence of Extremists
328. And while we would caution you not to overeat, even of the
best quality of food, we would also caution those that are extremists
not to raise a false standard, and then endeavor to bring everybody to
it.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:374, 375, 1870
329. I was shown that both B and C have dishonored the cause
of God. They have brought upon it a stain which will never be fully
wiped out. I was shown the family of our dear Brother D. If this
brother had received proper help at the right time, every member of
his family would have been alive today. It is a wonder that the laws of
the land have not been enforced in this instance of maltreatment. That
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family were perishing for food—the plainest, simplest food. They
were starving in a land of plenty. A novice was practicing upon them.
The young man did not die of disease, but of hunger. Food would have
strengthened the system, and kept the machinery in motion....
It is time that something was done to prevent novices from taking
the field and advocating health reform. Their works and words can be
spared; for they do more injury than the wisest and most intelligent
men, with the best influence they can exert, can counteract. It is
impossible or the best-qualified advocates of health reform to fully
relieve the minds of the public from the prejudice received through
the wrong course of these extremists, and to place the great subject
of health reform upon a right basis in the community where these
men have figured. The door is also closed in a great measure, so that