Manuscript Releases, vol. 1 [Nos. 19-96]

Rule Meat from the Table but no Rash Moves

Sister White: I think meat should be ruled out of the dining room. But I do not advise any rash, inconsiderate movements. I am not prepared to say just how the reform should be brought about. But I know that flesh meat should be kept off the table. How is it? Do the helpers have meat on their tables? 1MR 282.4

Dr. Sanderson: No. 1MR 283.1

Sister White: Well, I think it should be taken off the patient's tables, just as soon as it is possible to do it, and there should not be long waiting, either. There will be times when there will not be so many here, will there not? 1MR 283.2

Dr. Sanderson: Last winter it was just about as full all through the winter as it was in the fall. 1MR 283.3

Sister White: It was? I hope it will be so again. But there must be an educating, and there must be more force in the education given on the subject of healthful diet. I do not think that meat is allowed on the tables in the Battle Creek Sanitarium. 1MR 283.4

Dr. Sanderson: Oh, no; they have it. They had it there when I was there last spring. 1MR 283.5

Sister White: Is that so? But it is not used as much as formerly. 1MR 283.6

Dr. Sanderson: We do not have it here as much as in the past. 1MR 283.7

Sister White: I suppose the patients call for it. Or is it put on the tables? 1MR 283.8

Dr. Sanderson: They put it on only when it is asked for,—at the special request of the patients themselves. 1MR 283.9

Sister White: The Lord will be best pleased when all our sanitariums discard flesh meat. We have reason now as never before to let meat alone, because animals are diseased. The subject can be presented from this standpoint, and it will have great effect.—Manuscript 82, 1901, 42-45. (“Report of Interview of Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Sanderson with Ellen G. White,” August 25, 1901.) 1MR 283.10