Chapter 15—Health Foods and Hygienic Restaurants
From the Heavenly Provider
396. From the record of the Lord’s miracles in providing wine
at the wedding feast and in feeding the multitude, we may learn a
lesson of the highest importance. The health-food business is one of
the Lord’s own instrumentalities to supply a necessity. The heavenly
Provider of all foods will not leave His people in ignorance in regard
to the preparation of the best foods for all times and occasions.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:114, 1902
To Be Like the Manna
397. During the past night many things have been opened before
me. The manufacture and sale of health foods will require careful and
prayerful consideration.
There are many minds in many places to whom the Lord will
surely give knowledge of how to prepare foods that are healthful and
palatable, if He sees that they will use this knowledge righteously.
Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be
long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-
day Adventists. Foods that are healthful and life sustaining are to be
prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat.
The Lord will teach many in all parts of the world to combine fruits,
grains, and vegetables into foods that will sustain life and will not bring
disease. Those who have never seen the recipes for making the health
foods now on the market, will work intelligently, experimenting with
the food productions of the earth, and will be given light regarding the
use of these productions. The Lord will show them what to do.
He who gives skill and understanding to His people in one part
of the world will give skill and understanding to His people in other
parts of the world. It is His design that the food treasures of each
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country shall be so prepared that they can be used in the countries for
which they are suited. As God gave manna from heaven to sustain the
children of Israel, so He will now give His people in different places
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