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cooking schools should be established, and some should labor from
house to house, giving instruction in the art of cooking wholesome
foods. Many, many will be rescued from physical, mental, and moral
degeneracy through the influence of health reform. These principles
will commend themselves to those who are seeking for light; and such
will advance from this to receive the full truth for this time.
God wants His people to receive to impart. As impartial, unselfish
witnesses, they are to give to others what the Lord has given them. And
as you enter into this work, and by whatever means in your power seek
to reach hearts, be sure to work in a way that will remove prejudice
instead of creating it. Make the life of Christ your constant study, and
labor as He did, following His example.—
The Review and Herald,
June 6, 1912
Teaching Diet Reform at Holiday Gatherings and Special
Entertainments
814. When the light of health reform first came to us, we used, on
holiday occasions, to take cooking stoves to the grounds where the
people were assembled, and right there bake unleavened bread,—gems
and rolls. And I think that the result of our efforts was good, though,
of course, we had not the health food preparations that we now have.
At that time we were just beginning to learn how to live without using
flesh meat.
Sometimes we gave entertainments, and we took great care that
all that we prepared for the table was palatable and nicely served. In
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fruit season, we would get blueberries and raspberries fresh from the
bushes, and strawberries fresh from the vines. We made the table fare
an object lesson which showed those present that our diet, even though
it was in accordance with the principles of health reform, was far from
being a meager one.
Sometimes a short temperance lecture was given in connection
with these entertainments, and thus people became acquainted with our
principles of living. As far as we know, all were pleased and all were
enlightened. We always had something to say about the necessity of
providing wholesome food and of preparing it simply, and yet making
it so palatable and appetizing that those eating it would be satisfied.