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Counsels on Diet and Foods
The milk used should be procured from healthy cows, and should be
sterilized....
But I wish to say that when the time comes that it is no longer safe
to use milk, cream, butter, and eggs, God will reveal this. No extremes
in health reform are to be advocated. The question of using milk and
butter and eggs will work out its own problem. At present we have no
burden on this line. Let your moderation be known unto all men.
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629. When a letter came to me from Cooranbong, saying that
Doctor-----was dying, I was that night instructed that he must have a
change of diet. A raw egg, taken two or three times a day, would give
the nourishment that he greatly needed.—
Letter 37, 1904
630. Those who come to the sanitarium must be provided with
wholesome food prepared in the most palatable way consistent with
right principles. We cannot expect them to live just as we live.... The
food placed before the patients should be such as to make a favorable
impression on them. Eggs can be prepared in a variety of ways.—
Letter 127, 1904
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631. While warnings have been given regarding the dangers of
disease through butter, and the evil of the free use of eggs by small
children, yet we should not consider it a violation of principle to use
eggs from hens that are well cared for and suitably fed. Eggs contain
properties that are remedial agencies in counteracting certain poisons.
Some, in abstaining from milk, eggs, and butter, have failed to
supply the system with proper nourishment, and as a consequence have
become weak and unable to work. Thus health reform is brought into
disrepute. The work that we have tried to build up solidly is confused
with strange things that God has not required, and the energies of the
church are crippled. But God will interfere to prevent the results of
these too-strenuous ideas. The gospel is to harmonize the sinful race.
It is to bring the rich and poor together at the feet of Jesus.
The time will come when we may have to discard some of the
articles of diet we now use, such as milk and cream and eggs; but it
is not necessary to bring upon ourselves perplexity by premature and