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in diet and dress. Will Seventh-day Adventists continue to follow
unhealthful practices? Will they not heed the injunction, “Whether
therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of
God”?—
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Caution in Prescribing No Flesh Foods
434. The light that God has given upon the subject of disease and
its causes, needs to be dwelt upon largely; for it is the wrong habits
of indulgence of appetite, and careless, reckless inattention to proper
care for the body that tell upon people. Habits of cleanliness, care in
regard to that which is introduced into the mouth, should be observed.
You are to make no prescriptions that flesh meats shall never be
used, but you are to educate the mind, and let the light shine in. Let
the individual conscience be awakened in regard to self-preservation
and self-purity from every perverted appetite....
This meat-eating question needs to be guarded. When one changes
from the stimulating diet of meat eating to the fruit-and-vegetable diet,
there will always be at first a sense of weakness and of lack of vitality,
and many urge this as an argument for the necessity of a meat diet.
But this result is the very argument that should be used in discarding a
meat diet.
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The change should not be urged to be made abruptly, especially
for those who are taxed with continuous labor. Let the conscience be
educated, the will energized, and the change can be made much more
readily and willingly.
The consumptives who are going steadily down to the grave should
not make particular changes in this respect, but care should be exer-
cised to obtain the meat of as healthy animals as can be found.
Persons with tumors running their life away should not be burdened
with the question as to whether they should leave meat eating or not.
Be careful to make no stringent resolution in regard to this matter.
It will not help the case to force changes, but will do injury to the
nonmeat-eating principles. Give lectures in the parlor. Educate the
mind, but force no one; for such reformation made under a press is
worthless....
There needs to be presented to all students and physicians, and by
them to others, that the whole animal creation is more or less diseased.