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A Well-supplied Table
8. I have a well-set table on all occasions. I make no change for
visitors, whether believers or unbelievers. I intend never to be surprised
by an unreadiness to entertain at my table from one to half a dozen
extra who may chance to come in. I have enough simple, healthful
food ready to satisfy hunger and nourish the system. If any want more
than this, they are at liberty to find it elsewhere. No butter or flesh
meats of any kind come on my table. Cake is seldom found there. I
generally have an ample supply of fruits, good bread, and vegetables.
Our table is always well patronized, and all who partake of the food do
well, and improve upon it. All sit down with no epicurean appetite, and
eat with a relish the bounties supplied by our Creator.—
Testimonies
for the Church 2:487, 1870
[
Food Sweetened as Required, No Sugar on Table—532
]
On the Cars
9. While parents and children were eating of their dainties, my
husband and myself partook of our simple repast, at our usual hour,
at 1 P.M., of graham bread without butter, and a generous supply of
fruit. We ate our meal with a keen relish, and with thankful hearts
that we were not obliged to carry a popular grocery with us to provide
for a capricious appetite. We ate heartily, and felt no sense of hunger
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until the next morning. The boy with his oranges, nuts, popcorn, and
candies, found us poor customers. [In 1873, a little milk and some
sugar—532]—
The Health Reformer, December, 1870
Encountering Difficulties and Resultant Compromises
10. Over thirty years ago I was often in great weakness. Many
prayers were offered in my behalf. It was thought that flesh meat
would give me vitality, and this was, therefore, my principal article
of diet. But instead of gaining strength, I grew weaker and weaker.
I often fainted from exhaustion. Light came to me, showing me the
injury men and women were doing to the mental, moral, and physical
faculties by the use of flesh meat. I was shown that the whole human
structure is affected by this diet, that by it man strengthens the animal
propensities and the appetite for liquor.