Our preachers are not particular enough in regard to their habits of eating. They partake of too large quantities of food and of too great a variety at one meal. Some are reformers only in name. They have no rules by which to regulate their diet, but indulge in eating fruit or nuts between their meals, and thus impose too heavy burdens upon the digestive organs. Some eat three meals a day, when two would be more conducive to physical and spiritual health. If the laws which God has made to govern the physical system are violated, the penalty must surely follow. {4T 416.3}

Vore prædikanter er ikke nøjeregnende nok i deres spisevaner. De deltager i for store måltider, med for mange forskellige retter. Nogle er kun reformatorere af navn. De har ingen regler at til at regulere deres kost med og giver sig til at spise frugt og nødder mellem deres måltider og derved pålægger fordøjelsesorganerne for tunge byrder. Nogle spiser tre gange om dagen, selv om to ville bidrage (417) mere til fysisk og åndelig sundhed. Hvis de love, som Gud styrer den fysiske organisme med, overtrædes, må der afgjort følge en straf.