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a general plan before me. I was shown that God would give to His
commandment-keeping people a reform diet, and that as they received
this, their disease and suffering would be greatly lessened. I was shown
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that this work would progress.—[
The General Conference Bulletin,
April 12, 1901
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Counsels on Health, 531
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To Steadily Progress toward the Ideal Diet—651
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A Caution against Advancing Too Fast—803
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A Personal Acceptance of the Message
3. I accepted the light on health reform as it came to me. It has
been a great blessing to me. I have better health today, notwithstanding
I am seventy-six years old, than I had in my younger days. I thank
God for the principles of health reform.—
Manuscript 50, 1904
After One Year’s Trial—Benefits Received
4. I have thought for years that I was dependent upon a meat
diet for strength. I have eaten three meals a day until within a few
months. It has been very difficult for me to go from one meal to another
without suffering from faintness at the stomach, and dizziness of the
head. Eating would remove these feelings. I seldom allowed myself to
eat anything between my regular meals, and have made it a practice
to often retire without supper. But I have suffered greatly for want
of food from breakfast to dinner, and have frequently fainted. Eating
meat removed for the time these faint feelings. I therefore decided that
meat was indispensable in my case.
But since the Lord presented before me, in June, 1863, the subject
of meat eating in relation to health, I have left the use of meat. For a
while it was rather difficult to bring my appetite to bread, for which,
formerly, I had but little relish. But by persevering, I have been able to
do this. I have lived for nearly one year without meat. For about six
months most of the bread upon our table has been unleavened cakes,
made of unbolted wheat meal and water, and a very little salt. We use
fruits and vegetables liberally. I have lived for eight months upon two
meals a day.
I have applied myself to writing the most of the time for above a
year. For eight months have been confined closely to writing. My brain
has been constantly taxed, and I have had but little exercise. Yet my
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