Adventist Principles of Diet
By Editor
SAYS a frequent postal-card correspondent, and evidently earnest and self-denying worker in the Salvation Army we believe, Brother Henry Hansen, of Pasadena:— “Millions of good stomachs have been ruined by overeating and overdrinking, and by using too fine, strong food, and too strong drink. I am glad that the Adventist Church has good rules of diet. It is telling on their children in strength and beauty, and pure morals, and happy lives, through the blessings of Almighty God. Would that all our churches had a safe code of diet.” The above states the truth both in respect to a cause of ill health and the blessings of temperance in eating and drinking. Yet the Adventist Church, at least the Seventh-day Adventist, has no “code of diet.” It is a matter of individual conscience, enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God. God gives a good rule (1 Cor. 10: 31): “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”