Health Foods and Hygienic Restaurants
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upon as separate from other lines of camp meeting work. Each line
of God’s work is closely united with every other line, and all are to
advance in perfect harmony.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:41, 1902
413. In our cities interested workers will take hold of various lines
of missionary effort. Hygienic restaurants will be established. But with
what carefulness should this work be done! Those working in these
restaurants should be constantly experimenting, that they may learn
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how to prepare palatable, healthful foods. Every hygienic restaurant
should be a school for the workers connected with it. In the cities
this line of work may be done on a much larger scale than in smaller
places. But in every place where there is a church and a church school,
instruction should be given in regard to the preparation of simple health
foods for the use of those who wish to live in accordance with the
principles of health reform. And in all our missionary fields a similar
work can be done.—
Manuscript 79, 1900
Our Restaurants to Stand for Principle
414. You will need to guard constantly against the introduction of
this and that, which, though seemingly harmless, would lead to the
sacrifice of principles that should ever be maintained in our restaurant
work.... We must not expect that those who all their life have indulged
appetite will understand how to prepare food that will be at once
wholesome, simple, and appetizing. This is the science that every
sanitarium and health restaurant is to teach....
If the patronage of our restaurants lessens because we refuse to
depart from right principles, then let it lessen. We must keep the way
of the Lord, through evil report as well as good report.
I present these things to you in my letters to help you to cleave to
the right and to discard that which we cannot bring into our sanitariums
and restaurants without sacrificing principle.—
Letter 201, 1902
Avoid Complex Combinations
415. In all the restaurants in our cities, there is danger that the
combination of many foods in the dishes served shall be carried too
far. The stomach suffers when so many kinds of food are placed in it
at one meal. Simplicity is a part of health reform. There is danger that
our work shall cease to merit the name which it has borne.