The following is what I shared with the elder in my church in Michigan.
“NO ONE should be set apart as a teacher of the people while his own teaching or example contradicts the testimony God has given His servants to bear in regard to diet, for this will bring CONFUSION. His disregard of health reform UNFITS him to stand as the Lord’s messenger.” 6T. 378 (emphasis supplied) Question: Does standing behind the pulpit define one as “the Lord’s messenger?”
"Let not any our ministers set an evil example in the eating of flesh meat. Let them and their families live up to the light of health reform." Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 399. (emphasis supplied) Question: " Is not the speaker behind the pulpit the acting minister?
"Can we possibly have confidence in ministers who at tables where flesh is served join with others in eating it?" Ibid., p. 402.
"Will ANY who are ministers of the gospel, proclaiming the most solemn truth ever given to mortals, set an example in returning to the fleshpots of Egypt? Will those who are supported by the tithe from God's storehouse permit themselves by self-indulgence to poison the life-giving current flowing through their veins? Will they disregard the light and warnings that God has given them?" Ibid., p. 404, 405.
(emphasis supplied)
Is a speaker giving the message during the divine service a “messenger of the gospel?” Is he not the acting minister? Whether paid by the tithe or not has little to do with the fact that his message is in effect carrying much the same weight. The Bible makes no difference between an elder and a pastor.
A Sabbathschool teacher or anyone reading and presenting something up front before the people is surely an application of “teacher of the people” as referred to in the quote from 6 Test., p.378.
“One of the highest attainments in the Christian life is to overcome appetite, and without this victory ALL HOPE OF HEAVEN IS VAIN.” C.T.B.H. 206 (emphasis supplied)
“The controlling power of appetite will prove the ruin of thousands, when, if they had conquered on this point, they would have had moral power to gain the victory over every other temptation of Satan. But those who are slaves to appetite will fail in perfecting Christian character. The continual transgression of man for six thousand years has brought sickness, pain, and death as its fruits. And as we near the close of time, Satan's temptation to indulge appetite will be more powerful and more difficult to overcome." [3T, 491.3 - 492]
“The moral evils of a flesh diet are not less marked than are the physical ills. Flesh food is injurious to the health, and whatever affects the body has a corresponding effect on the mind and soul. Think the cruelty to animals that meat eating involves, and its effect on those who inflict and those who behold it. How it destroys the tenderness with which we should regard these creatures of God.” (1905) M.H. 315
“As a family, you are far from being free from disease. You have used the fat of animals which God in His word expressly forbids: It shall be a perpetual statue for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood. “ “ Moreover, ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.” (1868) 2T 61 (See Lev. 3:17, 7:25)