MORE RECIPES WILL BE ADDED AS TIME PERMITS!
Kamut is an ancient grain and has been around for over a thousand years. This is a wonderful grain that is naturally low in gluten for those who are gluten sensitive.
Recipes
Breakfast
Desserts & Toppings
- Black Tar (“chocolate” topping)
- Cheesecake Pumpkin Bars, Vegan
- Icecream, Vegan
- Pudding, Carob
Entrees
- Chickpea A La King
- Lasagna, Raw (delicious!)
Pasta
Rice/ Grains
Sauces/ Spreads/ Gravies
Seasonings
How to Live was compiled by Sister White, she included 6 of her articles and articles from doctors of her day which were in nearly harmony with what the Lord had revealed to her.
“During the last seven months we have been at home but about four weeks. In our travels we have sat at many different tables, from Iowa to Maine. Some whom we have visited live up to the best light they have. Others, who have the same opportunities of learning to live healthfully and well, have hardly taken the first steps in reform. They will tell you that they do not know how to cook in this new way. But they are without excuse in this matter of cooking; for in the work, How to Live, are many excellent recipes, and this work is within the reach of all. I do not say that the system of cookery taught in that book is perfect. I may soon furnish a small work more to my mind in some respects. [Amazing two previous sentences since the Holy Spirit would later show her the need for removing dairy/ cream from the diet] But How to Live teaches cookery almost infinitely in advance of what the traveler will often meet, even among some Seventh-day Adventists. {1T 680.2}
“Question on the Vision.–Did you receive your views upon health reform before visiting the Health Institute at Dansville, New York, [THE MOST PROMINENT OF MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FEATURING REFORMS IN DIET AND IN THE TREATMENT OF THE SICK WAS AT THIS TIME OPERATED BY DR. JAMES C. JACKSON AT DANSVILLE, NEW YORK, –COMPILERS.] or before you had read works on the subject? {3SM 276.1}
Answer.–It was at the house of Bro. A. Hilliard, at Otsego, Mich., June 6, 1863, that the great subject of Health Reform was opened before me in vision. {3SM 276.2}
I did not visit Dansville till August, 1864, fourteen months after I had the view. I did not read any works upon health until I had written Spiritual Gifts, volumes 3 and 4, Appeal to Mothers, and had sketched out most of my six articles in the six numbers of How to Live. {3SM 276.3}
I did not know that such a paper existed as The Laws of Life, published at Dansville, N.Y. I had not heard of the several works upon health, written by Dr. J. C. Jackson, and other publications at Dansville, at the time I had the view named above. I did not know that such works existed until September, 1863, when in Boston, Mass., my husband saw them advertised in a periodical called the Voice of the Prophets, published by Eld. J. V. Himes. My husband ordered the works from Dansville and received them at Topsham, Maine. His business gave him no time to peruse them, and as I determined not to read them until I had written out my views, the books remained in their wrappers. {3SM 276.4}
As I introduced the subject of health to friends where I labored in Michigan, New England, and in the State of New York, and spoke against drugs and flesh meats, and in favor of water, pure air, and a proper diet, the reply was often made, “You speak very nearly the opinions taught in the Laws of Life, and other publications, by Drs. Trall, Jackson, and others. Have you read that paper and those works?” {3SM 277.1}
My reply was that I had not, neither should I read them till I had fully written out my views, lest it should be said that I have received my light upon the subject of health from physicians, and not from the Lord. {3SM 277.2}
And after I had written my six articles for How to Live, I then searched the various works on hygiene and was surprised to find them so nearly in harmony with what the Lord had revealed to me. And to show this harmony, and to set before my brethren and sisters the subject as brought out by able writers, I determined to publish How to Live, in which I largely extracted from the works referred to. {3SM 277.3}
SHORTLY AFTER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS IN MAY, 1863, AT A TIME WHEN THE CHURCH NUMBERED 3,500 MEMBERS, ELLEN G. WHITE RECEIVED A VISION CALLING THE ATTENTION OF ADVENTISTS TO THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD HEALTH AND THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL WELL-BEING AND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. THE LIGHT GIVEN TOUCHED A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT PHASES OF LIVING, INCLUDING DIET, VALUE OF FRESH AIR, THE USE OF WATER, HEALTHFUL ATTIRE, EXERCISE, REST, ET CETERA. PROMINENT IN THIS IMPORTANT REVELATION OF JUNE 6, 1863, WAS LIGHT CONCERNING THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF THE POISONOUS DRUGS THAT PHYSICIANS SO FREELY PRESCRIBED. {2SM 276.1}
IN THE SUBSEQUENT YEARS THE GREAT BASIC HEALTH-REFORM VISION WAS FOLLOWED BY MANY VISIONS OPENING UP IN MORE DETAIL THE PRINCIPLES AND THE APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES THAT SHOULD GUIDE IN MATTERS OF RETAINING GOOD HEALTH AND THE CARE OF THE SICK, THE CALL FOR MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE MANNER IN WHICH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS SHOULD CONDUCT SUCH INSTITUTIONS. {2SM 276.2}
ON THESE MATTERS MRS. WHITE WROTE MUCH. HER FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION APPEARED IN 1864 IN SPIRITUAL GIFTS, [CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN FACSIMILE REPRINT.] VOLUME 4, PAGES 120 TO 151 IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED “HEALTH.” MRS. WHITE THEN EXPANDED THIS THIRTY-PAGE STATEMENT INTO SIX SEPARATE ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION UNDER THE GENERAL TITLE OF “DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES.” IN 1865 THESE WERE EMBODIED IN THE SIX NUMBERED PAMPHLETS COMPILED BY ELDER AND MRS. WHITE, ENTITLED HEALTH OR HOW TO LIVE, ONE E. G. WHITE ARTICLE APPEARING IN EACH NUMBER. [THE SIX ARTICLES IN THEIR ENTIRETY APPEAR AS AN APPENDIX TO THIS VOLUME, SEE PP. 409-479.] FROM TIME TO TIME OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DECADES THE VARIOUS JOURNALS OF THE DENOMINATION CARRIED ARTICLES BY MRS. WHITE ON THE SUBJECT OF HEALTH. IN 1890 SHE PRESENTED A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF THE HEALTH MESSAGE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE BOOK CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE AND BIBLE HYGIENE. IN 1905 SHE PUBLISHED THE MINISTRY OF HEALING, HER CLIMAXING VOLUME ON THE SUBJECT. THIS SHE INTENDED FOR VERY WIDE DISTRIBUTION IN AMERICA AND OVERSEAS. {2SM 276.3}
IN EACH OF HER GENERAL PRESENTATIONS ON HEALTH MRS. WHITE DISCUSSED POISONOUS DRUGS AND THEIR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF THE SICK. THIS PHASE OF THE SUBJECT–PROMINENT IN THE ORIGINAL HEALTH-REFORM VISION–FILLED EIGHT OF THE THIRTY PAGES OF HER INITIAL SPIRITUAL GIFTS PRESENTATION. SHE DEVOTED ONE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN THE “DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES” SERIES TO THE SUBJECT OF DRUGS. {2SM 277.1}
NOR WAS ELLEN WHITE’S VOICE ALONE AT THE TIME. THERE WERE CERTAIN PHYSICIANS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC WHO DEPLORED THE ABSENCE OF ADEQUATE DIAGNOSIS, AND GRAVELY QUESTIONED THE USE OF MANY COMMONLY PRESCRIBED POISONOUS DRUGS. AS A RESULT GRADUAL CHANGES TOOK PLACE IN THE TREATMENT OF THE SICK AS REGARDS THE USE OF DRUGS. THESE CHANGES HAVE BEEN MOST RAPID AND STRIKING IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE FIRST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WHEN MODERN MEDICAL EDUCATION, ALONG SCIENTIFIC AND EXPERIMENTAL LINES, DEVELOPED. {2SM 277.2}
IN HER EARLIER WRITINGS, PARTICULARLY, MRS. WHITE MADE SINGULARLY STRONG STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE PHYSICIANS OF THE TIME AND CONCERNING THE USE OF DRUGS. IN ORDER RIGHTLY TO EVALUATE THESE, ONE MUST KNOW SOMETHING OF THE MEDICAL PRACTICES AT THE TIME THE STATEMENTS WERE MADE. THIS KNOWLEDGE CAN BE GAINED BY EXAMINING THE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF THOSE TIMES AND FROM READING THE OPENING CHAPTER OF THE STORY OF OUR HEALTH MESSAGE, BY D. E. ROBINSON. {2SM 277.3}
IN HER BOOKS THAT DEAL SPECIFICALLY WITH THE PROBLEMS AND WORK OF THE CHURCH AND ITS MEMBERS, MRS. WHITE DEVOTES MORE SPACE TO THE SUBJECT OF HEALTH AND THE CARE OF THE SICK THAN TO ANY OTHER SINGLE TOPIC. THESE COUNSELS ARE SPREAD BEFORE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND PAGES OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALING, MEDICAL MINISTRY, COUNSELS ON DIET AND FOODS, COUNSELS ON HEALTH, AND TEMPERANCE, AND IN ARTICLES IN THE TESTIMONIES FOR THE CHURCH. THE READER IS DIRECTED TO THESE SOURCES FOR THE FULL, BALANCED PICTURE OF THE HEALTH-REFORM MESSAGE. {2SM 277.4}
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS FOUR CHAPTERS COMPOSED OF STATEMENTS DRAWN FROM VARIOUS SOURCES–SOME PUBLISHED AND SOME UNPUBLISHED–WRITTEN MOSTLY TO MEDICAL PERSONNEL IN CONNECTION WITH ADVENTIST INSTITUTIONS. THESE STATEMENTS ILLUSTRATE THE WAY MRS. WHITE HERSELF APPLIED THE PRINCIPLES REVEALED TO HER IN VISION. IN HER VARIOUS UTTERANCES ON THE SUBJECT OF THE CARE OF THE SICK, SHE EVER HELD UP THE IDEAL FOR WHICH TO STRIVE. AT THE SAME TIME SHE RECOGNIZED, AS SEEN BY THE TERMINOLOGY USED, THAT THERE WERE TIMES AND CIRCUMSTANCES IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS WHEN IT WAS JUSTIFIABLE AND NECESSARY TO EMPLOY EVEN MEDICATIONS THAT WERE KNOWN TO BE POISONOUS. {2SM 277.5}
IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT ELLEN WHITE GIVES US THE ASSURANCE THAT CHRIST AND THE ANGELS ARE PRESENT IN THE OPERATING ROOM ATTENDING AND GUIDING THE CONSECRATED CHRISTIAN PHYSICIAN IN PERFORMING SURGICAL OPERATIONS. BEFORE MAJOR SURGERY, THE ENTIRE BODY IS SATURATED WITH A POWERFUL AND, IN A SENSE, HARMFUL DRUG, TO THE POINT OF COMPLETE UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND TO COMPLETE INSENSIBILITY. BY THE SAME TOKEN, AFTER SURGICAL PROCEDURES, THE PHYSICIAN MAY FIND IT NECESSARY TO ADMINISTER SEDATIVES THAT ALMOST CERTAINLY INCLUDE DRUGS, TO GIVE RELIEF AND PREVENT THE PATIENT FROM LAPSING, FROM SHEER PAIN, INTO A STATE OF SURGICAL SHOCK AND, IN SOME INSTANCES, POSSIBLE DEATH. {2SM 278.1}
AS THEY STRIVE TO KNOW AND FOLLOW GOD’S WILL, NOT A FEW TODAY ARE MAKING INQUIRIES SIMILAR TO ONE EXPRESSED IN THE WORDS OF A MEDICAL STUDENT WHO IN 1893 WROTE TO MRS. WHITE TO ASK HER ABOUT THE USE OF DRUGS. IN HIS LETTER HE SAID: {2SM 278.2}
“FROM OUR STUDY OF THE TESTIMONIES AND THE LITTLE WORK, HOW TO LIVE, WE CAN SEE THAT THE LORD IS STRONGLY OPPOSED TO THE USE OF DRUGS IN OUR MEDICAL WORK. . . .SEVERAL OF THE STUDENTS ARE IN DOUBT AS TO THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘DRUG’ AS MENTIONED IN HOW TO LIVE. DOES IT REFER ONLY TO THE STRONGER MEDICINES AS MERCURY, STRYCHNINE, ARSENIC, AND SUCH POISONS, THE THINGS WE MEDICAL STUDENTS CALL ‘DRUGS,’ OR DOES IT ALSO INCLUDE THE SIMPLER REMEDIES, AS POTASSIUM, IODINE, SQUILLS, ETC.? WE KNOW THAT OUR SUCCESS WILL BE PROPORTIONATE TO OUR ADHERENCE TO God’S METHODS. FOR THIS REASON I HAVE ASKED THE ABOVE QUESTION.” {2SM 278.3}
THE FIRST ITEM IN CHAPTER 28, WHICH FOLLOWS IMMEDIATELY, IS MRS. WHITE’S REPLY TO THE INQUIRY OF THAT MEDICAL STUDENT.– WHITE TRUSTEES. {2SM 278.4}
RECIPE QUOTES
“Great care should be exercised by those who prepare recipes for our health journals. Some of the specially prepared foods now being made can be improved, and our plans regarding their use will have to be modified…”{CD 274.2}
“…The Lord loves us, and He does not want us to do ourselves harm by following unhealthful recipes.”{CD 297.4}
“Let health reformers remember that they may do harm by publishing recipes which do not recommend health reform…”{CD 334.5}
“…Let our people discard all unwholesome recipes.”(CD 349.1)
Recipes that are formed on the old plan of preparing food are gathered up and put into our health papers. This is not right. Only recipes for the plainest, simplest, and most wholesome food should be put into our health journals. We must not expect that those who all their life have indulged appetite will understand how to prepare food that will be at once wholesome, simple, and appetizing. This is the science that every sanitarium and health restaurant is to teach. {Lt201-1902.2}
“Those who have never seen the recipes for making the health foods now on the market will work intelligently, experimenting with the food productions of the earth, and will be given light regarding the use of these productions. The Lord will show them what to do. He who gives skill and understanding to His people in one part of the world will give skill and understanding to His people in other parts of the world…As God gave manna from heaven to sustain the children of Israel, so He will now give His people in different places skill and wisdom to use the productions of these countries in preparing foods to take the place of meat…”{HFM 24.3}
“The light given me is that no one person has been especially endowed with a recipe to make the greatest variety of health foods. The recipes already given have been practiced upon, and in doing this other brains have been aroused, and will continue to be sharp under the training of God. They are not to feel that the door is closed, that no more investigation can be made; because there is to be much more devising and planning of human minds, and no man is to forbid it. The work will be committed to human agencies. {HFM 54.2}
“OUR PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY WAKING UP TO THE SUBJECT OF HEALTH,” WROTE ELDER JAMES WHITE IN AN EDITORIAL IN THE REVIEW, DEC. 13, 1864, “AND THEY SHOULD HAVE PUBLICATIONS ON THE SUBJECT TO MEET THEIR PRESENT WANTS, AT PRICES WITHIN REACH OF THE POOREST.” HE ANNOUNCED THE EARLY ISSUANCE OF A SERIES OF PAMPHLETS, UNDER THE GENERAL TITLE, “HEALTH: OR HOW TO LIVE.” {LS 167.1}
THE STRONG CONVICTION OF ELDER AND MRS. WHITE, THAT THE REFORMS TO BE OUTLINED IN THESE PAMPHLETS WERE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE, IS THUS EXPRESSED IN A NOTE IN THE REVIEW, JAN. 24, 1865, CALLING ATTENTION TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST OF THE SERIES: {LS 167.2}
“WE WISH TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF THE BRETHREN EVERYWHERE TO THESE WORKS, PREPARED WITH ESPECIAL CARE, ON THE IMPORTANT SUBJECT OF A REFORM IN OUR MANNERS OF LIFE, WHICH IS GREATLY NEEDED, AND AS WE VIEW IT, WILL SURELY BE ACCOMPLISHED IN WHATEVER PEOPLE FIND THEMSELVES AT LAST PREPARED FOR TRANSLATION.” {LS 167.3}
DURING THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1865 THIS SERIES WAS COMPLETED. THESE HEALTH PAMPHLETS, SIX IN NUMBER, CONTAINED ARTICLES FROM MRS. WHITE ON “DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES,” AND ON ALLIED SUBJECTS; AND MANY EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF VARIOUS PHYSICIANS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN HEALTH REFORM PRINCIPLES. HYGIENIC RECIPES WERE INCLUDED, ALSO HINTS ON THE USE OF WATER AS A REMEDIAL AGENCY. THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, TEA AND COFFEE, SPICES, AND OTHER STIMULANTS AND NARCOTICS, WERE FURTHER EMPHASIZED. {LS 167.4}
“Some whom we have visited live up to the best light they have. Others, who have the same opportunities of learning to live healthfully and well, have hardly taken the first steps in reform. They will tell you that they do not know how to cook in this new way. But they are without excuse in this matter of cooking, for in the work, “How to Live,” are many excellent recipes, and this work is within the reach of all. I do not say that the system of cookery taught in that book is perfect. I may soon furnish a small work more to my mind in some respects. But “How to Live” teaches cookery almost infinitely in advance of what the traveler will often meet, even among some Seventh-day Adventists. {TSDF 91.10} (also found in 1T 680.2)
Many do not feel that this is a matter of duty, hence they do not try to prepare food properly. This can be done in a simple, healthful, and easy manner, without the use of lard, butter, or flesh-meats. Skill must be united with simplicity. To do this, women must read, and then patiently reduce what they read to practice. Many are suffering because they will not take the trouble to do this. I say to such, It is time for you to rouse your dormant energies and read up. Learn how to cook with simplicity, and yet in a manner to secure the most palatable and healthful food.”{TSDF 92.1}
“The students should have plenty of good wholesome food. The fruit should be fresh and palatable, and free from decay. But as to the many dishes for dessert for which we have recipes, I have no light in regard to them except that they should not be made. We want decided reforms among reformers. We feel the necessity of this matter most deeply. Letter 104, 1899.
It would be well for us to do less cooking and to eat more fruit in its natural state. Let us eat freely of fresh grapes, apples, peaches, oranges, blackberries, and all other kinds of fruit which can be obtained. Let these be prepared for winter use by canning, always using glass instead of tin. {Lt14-1901.7}
Dr. Rand, educate yourself to discard all flesh meat. Soon butter will never be recommended, and milk will be entirely discarded; for disease in animals is increasing in proportion to the increase of wickedness among men. Soon there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream, or butter. {Lt14-1901.8}
God will give His people ability and tact to prepare wholesome food without these things. Let our people in Australia discard all unwholesome recipes and learn how to live healthfully in accordance with the directions God has given. Let them impart this knowledge as they would Bible instruction. Let them preserve the health and increase the strength by avoiding the large amount of cooking which has filled the world with chronic invalids. We are coming to the time when recipes for cooking will not be needed, for God’s people will learn that the food God gave Adam in his sinless state is the best for keeping the body in a sinless state. {Lt14-1901.9}
It is customary to provide at dinner a variety of vegetables and other articles, and then fashion requires a dessert in the form of pudding or custard prepared with eggs and milk and sweets combined. These, introduced into the stomach after a meal of vegetables, will create disturbance; and the recipes for concocting the endless variety of mixtures called healthful are anything but healthful. The grains, vegetables, and fruits are all that the wants of the stomach demand; and the extra dish prepared for dessert might better never have taxed time and ingenuity to invent, for it creates great difficulty in disagreement with that which has been eaten. {Ms81-1894.2}
The lessons given in recipes for sweet cakes had better be left out of the cook books, and dispensed with entirely in the preparation of food. People make themselves sick because they do not study into the science of cooking, but study the taste and the appetite. They do not reason from cause to effect. That which is once put into their stomach is beyond their control; therefore they need to be guarded as to what they introduce into the stomach. {Lt91-1898.7}
Those who have not seen the recipes of how to make the health foods now on the market will make experiments with the food productions of the earth and will be given light regarding the use of these productions. The Lord will show them what to do. He who gives skill and understanding to His people in one part of the world will give skill and understanding to His people in other parts of the world. It is His design that the food treasures of each different country shall be prepared in such a way that they can be used in the countries for which they are suited. {Ms79-1902.4}
Some of the specially prepared foods now being made can be improved, and our plans regarding their use will have to be modified. Some have used the nut preparations too freely. Great care should be exercised by those who prepare the recipes for our health journals. {Ms79-1902.10}
Many have written to me, “I cannot use the nut foods; what shall I use in the place of meat?” One night I seemed to be standing before a company of people telling them that nuts are used too freely in their preparation of nut foods, and that if they were used more sparingly the results would be more satisfactory; for the system cannot take care of them as combined in some recipes given. {Ms79-1902.11}
Let health reformers remember that they may do harm by publishing recipes which do not recommend health reform. Great care is to be shown in furnishing recipes for custards and pastry. If the dessert sweet cake is eaten with milk or cream, fermentation will be created in the stomach, and then the weak points of the human organism will tell the story. The brain will be affected by the disturbance in the stomach. This may be easily cured if people will study from cause to effect, cutting out of their diet that which injures the digestive organs and causes pain in the head. By unwise eating men and women are unfitted for the work they might do without injury to themselves if they would eat simply. {Lt142-1900.11}
In (Exodus 30:22-38) we find the recipes given by the Lord for use in the tabernacle. These were the Lord’s special preparations. No man was to use as common that which He had made sacred. The distinction between the common and the sacred was to be strictly observed by His people throughout their generations. “Upon man’s flesh it shall not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you. Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.” [Verses 32, 33.] {Lt53-1901.5}
The cook in a sanitarium should be a well-trained medical missionary. He should be a capable person, able to experiment for himself. He should not confine himself to recipes. The Lord loves us, and He does not want us to do ourselves harm by following unhealthful recipes. {Ms93-1901.14}
We are to teach the people how to prepare dishes that are <not expensive, but> wholesome and palatable. And never is a recipe to appear in our health journals that will injure our reputation as health reformers. If the patronage of our restaurants lessens because we refuse to depart from right principles, then let it lessen. We must keep the way of the Lord through evil report as well as good report. {Lt201-1902.3}
We are living amid the perils of the last days, and you need now to consider how you must leave things should you be called from your labors—what use others will make of your course; by following your methods, what strange things may be brought to pass. These are the things that compel me now to write. You are carrying out your plans zealously, and may bring about things that I supposed the testimonies borne at the last conference would forever place in a different light. You mingle with many good and important interests, the wisdom of your own mind and planning; and who shall in the future separate the erroneous from the true? That testimony borne in regard to a binding power being exercised was just as applicable to you as to those who were doing likewise. You do not seem to discern that God has not given you all the authority that you exercise. In the appropriation of <means for> the health foods, you have not considered whose property you are handling. You are not your own. God has given to many minds jots and tittles <and wisdom>, one here and one there, with tact and ability; and although you have adjusted these gifts entrusted to varied minds so as to compose a large business in health foods, are not others to be privileged to use their God-given wisdom in devising health foods <as well as you>, and have they not the right to use them in a way that will benefit the cause of God, and meet the necessity that exists and will always continue to exist? Why should strong barricades be built up in this manner? The light given me is that no one <person> has been especially endowed with a recipe to make the greatest variety of health foods. The recipes already given have been practiced upon, and in doing this other brains have been aroused, and will continue to be sharp under the training of God. They are not to feel that the door is closed, that no more investigation can be made; because there is to be much more devising and planning of human minds, and no man is to forbid it. The work will be committed to human agencies. {Lt188-1901.11}
God did not design that this work should be shut up with a few, and the rest of the human family remain in darkness as to the preparation of health foods. The Lord would have people in all parts of the world to become intelligent in regard to <using> the productions of the soil in every locality. The products of each locality are to be studied and <carefully> investigated, to see if they cannot be combined in such a way as to simplify the production of foods and lessen the cost of manufacture and transportation. Let all do their best under the Lord’s supervision to accomplish this. There are many expensive articles of food that the genius of man can combine; and yet there is no real need of using the most expensive preparations. Three years ago a letter came to me, saying, “I cannot eat the nut foods; my stomach cannot take care of them.” Then there were several recipes presented <before me>; one was that there must be other ingredients combined with the nuts, which would harmonize with them, and not use such a large proportion of nuts. One-tenth to one-sixth part of nuts would be sufficient, <varied according to combinations.> We tried this, and with success. Other things were mentioned. One thing spoken of was sweetened crackers or biscuit. They are made because someone likes them, and then many obtain them who should not eat them. There are yet many improvements to be made, and God will work with all who will work with Him. {Lt188-1901.12}
It seems so strange to me that many of our people do not know how to prepare health foods properly for the table use. Many have said to me, “I followed the recipe for the making of such and such a food, but that which [I] prepared does not agree with my family. What am I to do?” I replied, “Has not God given you a mind? Can you not change the recipe, experimenting until you succeed in preparing something that is wholesome and palatable? Believe that God is standing reading to direct your mind, giving you wisdom in regard to the preparation of healthful foods.” Brethren and sisters, do not feel that a certain recipe must be followed without variation. Your common sense ought to tell you whether the recipe given produces a dish suited to your necessities. I wish that some of the recipes printed in our health books had never seen the light of day. {Ms92-1902.18}
Mistakes may be made in following precisely every recipe given in our health journals. Let those in charge of these journals be more careful than they have been in the past in regard to publishing recipes for our people. {Ms42-1902.2}
Restrain your desire for a great variety of food or for foods that demand a great deal of preparation. Let the health reform diet stand in its own virtue. Take time to study the truth while you have opportunity to do this. Store the mind with the Scriptures which are essential for the spiritual life of the soul. {Lt419-1907.12}
All these unnecessary recipes had better be left alone and we prepare simple dishes that will not require a great deal of time, and yet be satisfactory. All that we eat should be nourishing, yet enjoyable. Do not make slaves of yourselves or of your children—slaves to appetite. {Lt419-1907.13}
During the first five months of 1865 this series was completed. These health pamphlets, six in number, contained articles from Sister White on “Disease and Its Causes,” and on allied subjects, and many extracts from the writings of various physicians and others interested in health reform principles. Hygienic recipes were included, also hints on the use of water as a remedial agency. The harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, tea and coffee, spices, and other stimulants and narcotics, were further emphasized. {RH April 9, 1914, par. 4}
We are living amid the perils of the last days, and you need now to consider how you must leave things should you be called from your labors—what use others will make of your course; by following your methods, what strange things may be brought to pass. These are the things that compel me now to write. You are carrying out your plans zealously, and may bring about things that I supposed the testimonies borne at the last conference would forever place in a different light. You mingle with many good and important interests, the wisdom of your own mind and planning; and who shall in the future separate the erroneous from the true? That testimony borne in regard to a binding power being exercised was just as applicable to you as to those who were doing likewise. You do not seem to discern that God has not given you all the authority that you exercise. In the appropriation of <means for> the health foods, you have not considered whose property you are handling. You are not your own. God has given to many minds jots and tittles <and wisdom>, one here and one there, with tact and ability; and although you have adjusted these gifts entrusted to varied minds so as to compose a large business in health foods, are not others to be privileged to use their God-given wisdom in devising health foods <as well as you>, and have they not the right to use them in a way that will benefit the cause of God, and meet the necessity that exists and will always continue to exist? Why should strong barricades be built up in this manner? The light given me is that no one <person> has been especially endowed with a recipe to make the greatest variety of health foods. The recipes already given have been practiced upon, and in doing this other brains have been aroused, and will continue to be sharp under the training of God. They are not to feel that the door is closed, that no more investigation can be made; because there is to be much more devising and planning of human minds, and no man is to forbid it. The work will be committed to human agencies. {Lt188-1901.11}
I write a recipe here for wine or canned fruit. Put your grape juice into crocks, have an airtight box made like our dry goods boxes, have rocks or lath put in the box. Put fruit in cans with cans open and also have no covers on the crock. Have a small door made which can be closed tight when wished. Introduce with this door a spoon with a grain of sulphur about as large as a kernel of wheat. Let it burn and shut the door tight to keep the sulphur smoke in. Let this remain about four hours and you have fruit and wine which will not work or spoil. Dr. Pottenger paid a high price for this recipe and gave it to me. Try it. The wine tastes, after one year, as fresh as when just taken from the grape. This is a recipe you had better try. {Lt23-1875.15}
SPIRITUAL RECIPES
I know that the honor and glory of God are being revealed at this meeting. All your careless shortcomings are to be seen, repented of, acknowledged, and the Lord Jesus is to be in the thought, in the longing of soul, in the intensity of desire. Faith must be exercised, but faith without works is dead, being alone. The ministers may preach, and unless their own souls take hold with more intensity of desire and with a perseverance that they do not now possess, not one-hundredth part will be accomplished at this meeting that must be and should be realized. Let the inquiry come from convicted souls, What must I do to inherit eternal life? Read (Luke 10), Christ’s recipe for such necessities as at this time. The ministers are in danger of preaching long discourses and putting the crib too high. {Ms21-1889.38}
Isaiah 58:1-3. This shows the condition of blindness in the church, and why prayers are not answered. But there is a recipe given, and we want you to appreciate it, without money—free in the Word of God. Verses 4-8. Now if you first observe that kind of a fast. Verse 8. That is thy righteousness. It is the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ. [But] have [we] that righteousness that goeth before us? The glory of the Lord is sure to be our rearward, because we do the works of Jesus Christ. Work in His lines; we are not working in our own lines; but we are working in the lines where Christ works. {Ms6-1893.1}
(Related [the] story of [the] German lady [who] when eighty years old learned to read History of Sabbath and the English Bible by comparing [a] passage of German Scripture with one of English.) She reached her second childhood and began to work anew as a child would <to read the truth.> Now let us do what we can, and God will help us. Colossians 3:12. If you are the elect of God, do not make Him ashamed of you. Represent Him to the world. You are a new man in Christ Jesus. “Bowels of mercies, kindness.” Now that is what we want to act. We want to manifest this kindness in our homes before our children. If we humble ourselves God will exalt us. Here is the recipe to heal dissension which grieves God and Christ and the heavenly intelligences. Verse 13. What a powerful argument. If Christ should have no more forbearance <than the human agent does,> we should be extinguished. We do not sense it. {Ms6-1893.12}
When visitors, the young or those older in years, shall begin this vain kind of talk, it is the duty of the mother to change the conversation. And it may be necessary to say, This is an unprofitable train of conversation. Our words should be precious talents. In the Book from which we read our morning lesson there is a recipe to guide and instruct us. If we would be happy in the future life, we must be doing our service to God in this life. “He that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.” 1 Peter 3:10, 11. {Ms110-1894.13}
There have been altogether too many looking in upon their own trials and difficulties. But when they forget self, and look upon the suffering necessity of others, there will be no time to magnify their own griefs. Earnest work for the Lord is a recipe for mind ailments; and the helpful hand to lift the burdens Christ has borne for all his heritage, will lessen our burdens, and they will not seem worth mentioning. True, honest work will give healthy action to the mind by giving healthy action to the muscles. It is the constant manufacturing of ills and burdens that kills. We are to be content to bear the strain of daily duties; and the great pressure of tomorrow’s liabilities—leave these cares for the time when we must take them. {HM November 1, 1897, Art. A, par. 6}
Know that in times of trial you have a helper who will enable you to keep your words choice and your attitude circumspect. I will give you a Bible recipe: “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busy body in other men’s matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God, and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls unto him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.” [1 Peter 4:12-19.] {Lt17-1897.9}
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen?” God asks, “to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?” [Isaiah 58:6, 7.] {Ms87-1898.7}
This is the recipe Christ has prescribed for faint-hearted, doubting, trembling saints. Let the sorrowful ones, who walk mournfully before the Lord, arise and help some one that needs help. In His Word Christ has provided something definite and solid for diseased souls to grasp and lean upon. The leaven of truth in the soul will lead you to do the very work that Christ did when He was on this earth. {Ms87-1898.8}
“Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.” [Verse 8.] Christ is our righteousness; He goes before us in this work, and the glory of the Lord follows. {Ms87-1898.9}
Self-denial and self-sacrifice will be rewarded as the fruit borne by the true Christian. Christ, the Majesty of heaven, laid aside His royal robe and kingly crown, and stepped down from His position in the heavenly courts. He clothed His divinity with humanity that He might give men and women an example of the life that they must live in order to be sons and daughters of God. For our sakes He became poor, that through His poverty we might become rich. He says, “He that will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” [Mark 8:34.] This is the gospel receipt for finding the precious, health-giving recipe of Christ. {Lt52-1900.21}
The divine antidote for the sin of the whole world is contained in the gospel of St. John. There is found a recipe for all the maladies of the soul. “Whoso eateth of my flesh and drinketh of my blood,” Christ declares, “hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” [John 6:54.] He may die, as Christ died, but the life of the Saviour is in him; his life is hid with Christ in God. “I am come that they might have life,” Jesus said, “and that they might have it more abundantly.” [John 10:10.] Again He said, “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up unto everlasting life.” [John 4:14.] “This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him shall receive.” [John 7:39.] Christ carries on the great process by which believers become one with Him in this present life and are one with Him in life eternal. {Lt131-1900.7}
We need to be converted, else we shall never understand the meaning of sanctification of soul and spirit. The third chapter of Colossians is a wonderfully soothing recipe for the cure of church troubles. In your families and in the church will you begin at once the treatment here laid out? Will you take the remedy prescribed, and will you take it now? {Ms72-1900.6}
As believers in Christ we need greater faith. We need to be more fervent in prayer. Many wonder why their prayers are so lifeless, their faith so feeble and wavering, their Christian experience so dark and uncertain. Have we not fasted, they say, and “walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?” In the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah Christ has shown how this condition of things may be changed. He says: “Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?” Verses 6, 7. This is the recipe that Christ has prescribed for the fainthearted, doubting, trembling soul. Let the sorrowful ones, who walk mournfully before the Lord, arise and help someone who needs help. {6T 266.1}
Unity is the strength of the church. Satan knows this, and he employs his whole force to bring in dissension. He desires to see a lack of harmony among the members of the church of God. Greater attention should be given to the subject of unity. What is the recipe for the cure of the leprosy of strife and dissension? Obedience to the commandments of God. {Ms14-1901.32}
I will give you a recipe against depending upon man. In the first chapter of second Peter there is recorded the plan of addition upon which we are to live, and then the apostle says, “If these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.” [Verses 8, 9.] How many here have forgotten to pay God His tithe? How many are robbing God, and at the same time expecting His blessing, wondering why they do not have more vitality and power and grace? How many have forgotten that God will purge us from the sin of covetousness? {Ms147-1901.42}
True piety is not straitened, bigoted, hard, or exacting. When our hearts are drawn out because of the necessities of the fallen race, wisely and mercifully we shall exercise painstaking care to do good to others. The care that we give to those who can be helped will take our minds from ourselves. This is a recipe for the cure of all unprofitable conversation. In the place of backbiting, falsely accusing, thinking evil, and acting as if the evil that we imagined were surely in existence, when it is not, we shall, by following this recipe, be identified with Christ in the work of uplifting our fellow men and restoring their God-given nobility. No longer shall we drop, as evil seed, words that will cause man persons to be filled with suspicion and to watch for evil. No longer shall we make another an offender for a word that is misconstrued and misrepresented as an evil thing. No longer shall we abuse the minds of our associates by burdening them with evil thoughts, to which our minds have given birth, and which, as evil seed, spring up and grow in other minds. In the place of speaking evilly, we shall speak words of encouragement, taking particular pains to be pleasant and agreeable. {Ms59-1902.21}
So prevalent have objectionable, faultfinding traits of character become in the Church, that the Lord Jesus presents the Laodicean message to His people as an accurate description of their unsavory condition. In this message He gives the counsel that every church in the Southern field and all other fields should heed: “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth.” [Revelation 3:14-16.] What a deception is upon them! But God gives the recipe that will change their condition: “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” [Verses 17-20.] Who will use this God-given recipe? To those who choose to make use of it, the promise is: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne.” [Verse 21.] {Ms59-1902.29}
“If ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father (in heaven) also is merciful.” [Verses 32-36.] We recommend this recipe to those who claim to be sons and daughters of God and upon whom His light is shining. “Love as brethren.” [1 Peter 3:8.] {Ms59-1902.23}
“Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.” [Verse 15.] This is the way in which misunderstandings are to be settled. Speaking alone, and in the Spirit of Christ to the one who is in fault, will often remove the difficulty. Show Christlike love for your brother by seeking to adjust the difficulty “between thee and him alone.” Talk quietly together. Let no angry words escape your lips. Present the subject in a way that will appeal to his best judgment. And if he will hear you, you have gained him as a friend. Whatever the character of the offense may be, this does not change the plan God has made for the settlement of misunderstandings and personal injuries. Act out the Spirit of Christ. Take the recipe God has provided, and carry it to the spiritually diseased. Give him the remedy that will cure the disease of disaffection. Do your part to help him. Feel that it is a duty and privilege to do this, for the sake of the peace of the church, which is very dear to the heart of Christ. He does not want any wound to remain unhealed on any member of His church. All heaven is interested in the interview between the injured member and the one who has been guilty of error. After settling the difficulty, pray together, and angels of God will come to you and bless you. There is music in heaven over this union. {Ms47-1902.9}
Verse 8. … “as the morning.” Is not that a wonderful thing? Verse 8. Thy rearward is the glory of God, when you acknowledge your brotherhood, when you are not so selfish as to bring yourself up with your own ideas and your own plans. This is a recipe for sickness, for despondency. It is a recipe for evil surmisings. It is a recipe for all that are inclined to speak works that will impress their neighbor of their friend. Shall we take it? {Ms192-1905.4}
[Isaiah 58] Verses 6, 7. Let us work on the right side. Verse 8. There is health in working in that way. As you try to help others, the blessing of God comes upon you. The health springs forth speedily. {Ms192-1905.8}
Then He tells you to call, and He will answer. “If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke.” [Verse 9.] {Ms192-1905.9}
Verse 10. Will you try the recipe? Verse 11. What, I ask you could not our churches do if they would come into this position. They would be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. What is the matter with the church? They are shut in with themselves, and they do not get out of self. “And they that be of thee.” (Verse 12)—“waste places.” {Ms192-1905.10}
Because the proposition has been made, it is not to be considered that it will be correct without taking the matter to the One wise in counsel and who will not make one mistake. Our Lord knows the frailties of every human agency. God in His providence will work to give the places to be worked to one adapted to the situation. If one is supposed to have committed errors, then those who feel pained over these errors are to go to the ones who are in error and follow Christ’s prescription to cure difficulties. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ understands every case. Take hold of those cases with all due respect as the Great Physician would do and follow His rule, not as men who are rough and inconsiderate. And then, if wrongs have been done, with humble hearts draw nigh to God, humble your hearts before God and correct mistakes right where they are. Do not make the case the worst possible to others until you go to the very one and open your heart to them. We need now to dwell on that point. Christ has given the recipe to cure all such difficulties. The very ones who have these difficulties and depart from a plain “Thus saith the Lord” are the ones who need church discipline. It would be a great surprise if you can find persons who cannot be criticized, but keep their fault between him and thee alone. We are all in need of more grace and more humility. If our hearts are softened and subdued by the Holy Spirit, and the Bible is followed, then on the plan of the righteousness of Christ there is hope for a reform according to His Word. If evil surmising has been at work, then cut it away out of the church, for if not seen and its evil corrected, the thing will appear again and again. Let all become well-informed and not indulge in evil surmising. {Lt408-1906.7}
Never say, “It is time to make an example of this brother,” even though he may have erred. Wait till you can say, “It is time to make an example of me by the withdrawal of your confidence and favor, because I have not moved wisely.” But there are so many who, though willing to make out a recipe, that others may take the bitter medicine, would not be pleased to take it themselves. With many it makes every difference whether it is I or my brother. Well did the apostle say, Ye have many teachers, but few fathers. [1 Corinthians 4:15.] It is spiritual fathers that we need in our gospel work. {Lt50a-1897.31}
I have not received a line from Brother Hickox or from his wife. All that I have heard is from those whom I know are not moving in the counsel of God. I think that it would be best for us to humble our hearts before God, and obtain bowels of mercy, and the incense of sanctified love, and see if this will not change the recipe given to Brother Hickox. I do not speak of him as a perfect man, for he is the same as his brethren. He has the same liability to err, and the same need of a teachable spirit. But if you think that the course pursued toward him will enable you to obtain his confidence, and lead him to rely on his brethren, believing that if he makes a mistake, they will have wisdom to help him, you have made a wrong calculation. {Lt50a-1897.32}