- Preface
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- Chapter 1—Breads
- Chapter 2—Butter
- Chapter 3—Cheese
- Chapter 4—Cider
- Chapter 5—Combinations
- Chapter 6—Cooking Schools
- Chapter 7—Diet in Different Countries
- Chapter 8—Diet and Morals
- Chapter 9—Diet During Pregnancy and Lactation
- Chapter 10—Diet and Spirituality
- Chapter 11—Eating Between Meals
- Chapter 12—Eggs
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- Chapter 14—Fasting
- Chapter 15—Feeding of Children
- Chapter 16—Flesh Foods
- Chapter 17—Foods as Remedies
- Chapter 18—Fruits
- Chapter 19—God's Remedies
- Chapter 20—Grains
- Chapter 21—Health Reform and the Third Angel's Message
- Chapter 22—Healthful Cookery
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- Chapter 24—How to Present the Principles of Health Reform
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- Chapter 26—Instruction to be Given on Health Topics
- Chapter 27—Mastication
- Chapter 28—Milk and Cream
- Chapter 29—Milk and Sugar
- Chapter 30—Number of Meals
- Chapter 31—Nuts and Nut Foods
- Chapter 32—Olives and Olive Oil
- Chapter 33—Original Diet
- Chapter 34—Physiology of Digestion
- Chapter 35—Pickles
- Chapter 36—Pie, Cake, Pastry and Puddings
- Chapter 37—Proper Diet
- Chapter 38a—Salt, Spices and Condiments
- Chapter 38b—Sanitarium Dietary
- Chapter 39—Simple Diet
- Chapter 40—Soda and Baking Powder
- Chapter 41—Sugar
- Chapter 42—Tea and Coffee
- Chapter 43—Water Drinking
- Chapter 44—Overeating and Control of Appetite
- Chapter 45—Improper Eating a Cause of Disease
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Closing Our Restaurants on the Sabbath
The question has been asked, “Should our restaurants be opened on the Sabbath?” My answer is, No, No! The observance of the Sabbath is our witness to God—the mark, or sign, between Him and us that we are His people. Never is this mark to be obliterated.TSDF 110.4
Were the workers in our restaurants to provide meals on the Sabbath the same as they do through the week for the mass of people who would come, where would be their day of rest? What opportunity would they have to recruit their physical and spiritual strength?TSDF 110.5
Not long since, special light was given me on this subject. I was shown that efforts would be made to break down our standard of Sabbath observance; that men would plead for the opening of our restaurants on the Sabbath; but that this must never be done.TSDF 110.6
A scene passed before me. I was in our restaurant in San Francisco. It was Friday. Several of the workers were busily engaged in putting up packages of such foods as could be easily carried by the people to their homes; and a number were waiting to receive these packages. I asked the meaning of this and the workers told me that some among their patrons were troubled because, on account of the closing of the restaurant, they could not on the Sabbath obtain food of the same kind as that which they used during the week. Realizing the value of the wholesome foods obtained at the restaurant, they protested against being denied them on the seventh day, and pleaded with those in charge of the restaurant to keep it open every day in the week, pointing out what they would suffer if this were not done. “What you see today,” said the workers,” is our answer to this demand for the health foods upon the Sabbath. These people take on Friday food that lasts over the Sabbath and in this way we avoid condemnation for refusing to open the restaurant on the Sabbath.”TSDF 110.7
The line of demarcation between our people and the world must ever be kept unmistakably plain. Our platform is the law of God, in which we are enjoined to observe the Sabbath day; for as is distinctly stated in the thirty-first chapter of Exodus, the observance of the Sabbath is a sign between God and His people. “Verily My Sabbaths ye shall keep,” He declares; “for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you.... It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”TSDF 110.8
We are to heed a “Thus saith the Lord,” even though by our obedience we cause great inconvenience to those who have no respect for the Sabbath. On one hand we have man's supposed necessities; on the other, God's commands. Which have the greatest weight with us?TSDF 110.9
In our sanitariums, the family of patients, with the physicians, nurses and helpers, must be fed upon the Sabbath, as any other family, with as little labor as possible. But our restaurants should not be opened on the Sabbath. Let the workers be assured that they will have this day for the worship of God. The closed doors on the Sabbath stamp the restaurant as a memorial for God, a memorial which declares that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and that on it no unnecessary work is to be done.TSDF 110.10
I have been instructed that one of the principal reasons why hygienic restaurants and treatment-rooms should be established in the centers of large cities is that by this means the attention of leading men will be called to the third angel's message. Noticing that these restaurants are conducted in a way altogether different from the way in which ordinary restaurants are conducted, men of intelligence will begin to inquire into the reasons for the difference in business methods, and will investigate the principles that lead us to serve superior food. Thus they will be led to a knowledge of the message for this time.TSDF 110.11
When thinking men find that our restaurants are closed on the Sabbath they will make inquiries in regard to the principles that lead us to close our doors on Saturday. In answering their questions, we shall have opportunity to acquaint them with the reasons for our faith. We can give them copies of our periodicals and tracts, so that they may be able to understand the difference between “him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not.”TSDF 111.1
Not all our people are as particular as they should be in regard to Sabbath observance. May God help them to reform. It becomes the head of every family to plant his feet firmly on the platform of obedience.TSDF 111.2