The Use of Honey by John Nevins Andrews

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 17, 1868

The Use of Honey.

By John Nevins Andrews

SOLOMON does not absolutely forbid the use of honey. He says, Prov. xxv, 16, “Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.” But how much honey may we eat without danger of nausea? He gives us a proper rule in verse 27, “It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search their own glory is not glory.” Eat honey as sparingly as you may properly speak in your own praise. If you regard this rule you will not suffer nausea from the use of honey, nor cause others to suffer it from the vanity of your language.

J. N. A.