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Counsels on Diet and Foods
Many Will Be Enlightened
762. The Lord has presented before me that many, many will
be rescued from physical, mental, and moral degeneracy through the
practical influence of health reform. Health talks will be given, pub-
lications will be multiplied. The principles of health reform will be
received with favor; and many will be enlightened. The influences that
are associated with health reform will commend it to the judgment of
all who want light; and they will advance step by step to receive the
special truths for this time. Thus truth and righteousness will meet
together....
The gospel and the medical missionary work are to advance to-
gether. The gospel is to be bound up with the principles of true health
reform. Christianity is to be brought into the practical life. Earnest,
thorough reformatory work is to be done. True Bible religion is an
outflowing of the love of God for fallen man. God’s people are to
advance in straightforward lines to impress the hearts of those who are
seeking for truth, who desire to act their part aright in this intensely
earnest age. We are to present the principles of health reform before
the people, doing all in our power to lead men and women to see the
necessity of these principles and to practice them.—
Testimonies for
the Church 6:378, 379, 1900
Pioneer Efforts in Teaching Health Reform Principles
763. When the State fair was held in Battle Creek [1864], our
people took with them onto the grounds three or four cooking stoves,
and demonstrated how good meals might be prepared without the use
of flesh meat. We were told that we set the best table on the ground.
Whenever large gatherings are held, it is your privilege to devise plans
whereby you can provide those who attend with wholesome food, and
you are to make your efforts educational.
The Lord gave us favor with the people, and we had many won-
derful opportunities to demonstrate what could be done through the
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principles of health reform to restore to health those whose cases had
been pronounced hopeless....—
Manuscript 27, 1906