Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

[Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 55-
59 (1890).] Many of the views held by Seventh-day
Adventists differ widely from those held by the
world in general. Those who advocate an
unpopular truth should, above all others, seek to be
consistent in their own life. They should not try to
see how different they can be from others, but how
near they can come to those whom they wish to
influence, that they may help them to the positions
they themselves so highly prize. Such a course will
commend the truths they hold.
Those who are advocating a reform in diet
should, by the provision they make for their own
table, present the advantages of hygiene in the best
light. They should so exemplify its principles as to
commend it to the judgment of candid minds.
There is a large class who will reject any
reform movement, however, reasonable, if it lays a
restriction upon the appetite. They consult taste,
instead of reason and the laws of health. By this
class, all who leave the beaten track of custom and
advocate reform will be opposed and accounted
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