Answer
It was at the house of Brother A. Hilliard, at Otsego, Mich., June 6, 1863, that the great subject of Health Reform was open before me in vision. I did not visit Dansville till August, 1864, fourteen months after I had the view. I did not read any works upon health until I had written Spiritual Gifts, Vols. 3 and 4, Appeal to Mothers, and had sketched out most of my six articles in the six numbers of “How to Live.” I did not know that such a paper existed as the Laws of Life, published at Dansville, N. Y. I had not heard of the several works upon health, written by Dr. J. C. Jackson, and other publications at Dansville, at the time I had the view named above. I did not know that such works existed until September, 1863, when in Boston, Mass., my husband saw them advertised in a periodical called the Voice of the Prophets, published by Elder J. V. Himes. My husband ordered the works from Dansville and received them at Topsham, Maine. His business gave him no time to peruse them, and as I determined not to read them until I had written out my views, the books remained in their wrappers. As I introduced the subject of health to friends where I labored in Michigan, New England, and in the state of New York, and spoke against drugs and flesh-meats, and in favor of water, pure air, and a proper diet, the reply was often made, “You speak very nearly the opinions taught in the Laws of Life, and other publications, by Drs. Trall, Jackson, and others. Have you read that paper and those works?” My reply was that I had not, neither should I read them till I had fully written out my views, lest it should be said that I had received my light upon the subject of health from physicians, and not from the Lord. And after I had written my six articles for “How to Live,” I then searched the various works on Hygiene and was surprised to find them so nearly in harmony with what the Lord had revealed to me. And to show this harmony, and to set before my brethren and sisters the subject as brought out by able writers, I determined to publish “How to Live,” in which I largely extracted from the works referred to.
TSDF 8.10
Ellen G. White
From The Review and Herald, October 8, 1867.
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TSDF
Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
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Appetite","mp3":"\/mp3\/125\/0052_eng_f_chapter_44_overeating_and_control_of_appetite_125_2287.mp3#duration=6438&size=38917087"},{"para_id":"125.2561","title":"Chapter 45\u2014Improper Eating a Cause of Disease","mp3":"\/mp3\/125\/0053_eng_f_chapter_45_improper_eating_a_cause_of_disease_125_2561.mp3#duration=2555&size=15612226"},{"para_id":"125.2683","title":"Chapter 46\u2014Reasons for Reform","mp3":"\/mp3\/125\/0054_eng_f_chapter_46_reasons_for_reform_125_2683.mp3#duration=4572&size=27717978"},{"para_id":"125.2878","title":"Diet","mp3":"\/mp3\/125\/0055_eng_f_diet_125_2878.mp3#duration=1939&size=11916412"}]