Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

would be very patient with them and allow them to
advance step by step, as we have done, until their
feet are firmly established upon the health-reform
platform. But we should be very cautious not to
advance too fast, lest we be obliged to retrace our
steps. In reforms, we would better come one step
short of the mark than to go one step beyond it.
And if there is error at all, let it be on the side next
to the people.
Above all things, we should not with our pens
advocate positions that we do not put to a practical
test in our own families, upon our own tables....
If we come to persons who have not been
enlightened in regard to health reform, and present
our strongest positions at first, there is danger of
their becoming discouraged as they see how much
they have to give up, so that they will make no
effort to reform. We must lead the people along
patiently and gradually, remembering the hole of
the pit whence we were digged.—Testimonies for
the Church 3:20, 21 (1872).
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