Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

content to take a low level and is not directed
upward in a pure, holy, and heavenly channel.
Avoid False Standards
While we would caution you not to overeat,
even of the best quality of food, we would also
caution those that are extremists not to raise a false
standard and then endeavor to bring everybody to
it. There are some who are starting out as health
reformers who are not fit to engage in any other
enterprise, and who have not sense enough to take
care of their own families or keep their proper
place in the church. And what do they do? Why,
they fall back as health-reform physicians, as
though they could make that a success. They
assume the responsibilities of their practice and
take the lives of men and women into their hands,
when they really know nothing about the
business.—Testimonies for the Church 2:374, 375
(1869).
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