「We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
health, and behold trouble!」 (Jeremiah 8:15).
Many students are deplorably ignorant of the fact that diet
exerts a powerful influence upon the health. Some have never made a determined
effort to control the appetite, or to observe proper rules in regard to diet.
They eat too much, even at their meals, and some eat between meals whenever the
temptation is presented. If those who profess to be Christians desire to solve
the questions so perplexing to them, why their minds are so dull, why their
religious aspirations are so feeble, they need not, in many instances, go
farther than the table; here is cause enough, if there were no other. Many
separate themselves from God by their indulgence of appetite. He who notices
the fall of a sparrow, who numbers the very hairs of the head, marks the sin of
those who indulge perverted appetite at the expense of weakening the physical
powers, benumbing the intellect, and deadening the moral perceptions.6 The
dishes of soft foods, the soups and liquid foods, or the free use of meat, are
not the best to give healthful muscles, sound digestive organs, or clear
brains. . . . The diet question is to be studied; no one person』s appetite, or
tastes, or fancy, or notion is to be followed; but there is need of great
reform.7 We should educate ourselves, not only to live in harmony with the laws
of health, but to teach others the better way. Many, even of those who profess
to believe the special truths for this time, are lamentably ignorant with
regard to health and temperance. They need to be educated, line upon line,
precept upon precept. The subject must be kept fresh before them. This matter must
not be passed over as nonessential; for nearly every family needs to be stirred
up on the question. The conscience must be aroused to the duty of practicing
the principles of true reform. . . . Seek to arouse the intellect and the
conscience. Bring into service all the talent at command, and follow up the
work with publications upon the subject. 「Educate, educate, educate.」 摘自懷愛倫著作