Don't Salt and Pepper Your Minister.
By B. F. Snook
This may seem like rather a novel exhortation, and yet it is a necessary one among some, in some places. There are many of our good sisters who, as yet, have not observed the admonitions on the health question relative to unnecessary condiments on our food. I am specially interested on this part of the subject. I can bear a little salt, but not near as much as some use. Some put salt in every thing they eat, even to the bread. This is too much for me. Now if we will get used to a little, it will taste just as well, and be better for the health. There are some, too, who must pepper every article of the vegetable kind. This is almost killing. We would suggest, that it would be very agreeable to us, to cook the victuals without either salt or pepper, and let those who will have these articles, season their food to suit their own taste. Peppered victuals are spoiled for our use, unless we can scrape it off. One other suggestion is of importance. It is hard work for your preachers to preach to you immediately after eating a late supper. This you often compel them to do, or they must go hungry. A kind reform for your minister's good, will be to have a very early supper. When it is practicable, we will be satisfied to have dinner about three o'clock, and no supper. I speak on this subject because I am interested; for I have suffered much from the above things, and under such circumstances never can preach so well. The more care we observe in what we eat, and when we eat, the better health we enjoy, and the more service we can do in the cause. Hence, by paying heed to these things, our sisters may help us do the Lord's work.