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Counsels on Diet and Foods
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Purpose of Health Foods in Supplying the Place of Flesh Meat,
Also Milk and Butter—583
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Christ’s Lesson on Economy
406. There is much at stake in this work. The wholesome pro-
ductions of the earth must be experimented upon in an effort to make
wholesome, inexpensive foods.
The food business is to be made the subject of earnest prayer. Let
the people ask God for wisdom to prepare wholesome foods. He
who fed the five thousand with five loaves and two small fishes, will
supply the needs of His children today. After Christ had performed this
wonderful miracle, He gave a lesson on economy. After the hunger of
the multitude had been satisfied, He said, “Gather up the fragments
that remain, that nothing be lost.” “And they took up the fragments
that remained twelve baskets full.”—
Letter 27, 1902
Foods From Local Products in Different Lands
407. To many in different places the Lord will give intelligence in
regard to health foods. He can spread a table in the wilderness. Health
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foods should be prepared by our churches who are trying to practice
the principles of health reform. But as surely as they should do this,
some would say that they were infringing on their rights. But who gave
them the wisdom to prepare these foods?—The God of heaven. That
same God will give wisdom to His people in the different countries
to use the productions of these countries in preparing health foods.
In simple, inexpensive ways, our people are to experiment with the
fruits and grains and roots in the countries in which they live. In the
different countries inexpensive health foods are to be manufactured
for the benefit of the poor and for the benefit of the families of our own
people.
The message that God has given me is that His people in foreign
lands are not to depend for their supply of health foods on the impor-
tations of health foods from America. The freight and the duty make
the cost of these foods so high that the poor, who are just as precious
in the sight of God as the wealthy, cannot have the advantage of them.
Health foods are God’s productions, and He will teach His people
in missionary fields so to combine the productions of the earth, that