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Counsels on Diet and Foods
and teach their children to practice, mercy toward the dumb creatures
that God has made and has placed under our dominion.—
The Ministry
of Healing, 317, 1905
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651. Among those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord,
meat eating will eventually be done away; flesh will cease to form a
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part of their diet. We should ever keep this end in view, and endeavor to
work steadily toward it. I cannot think that in the practice of flesh eating
we are in harmony with the light which God has been pleased to give
us. All who are connected with our health institutions especially should
be educating themselves to subsist on fruits, grains, and vegetables. If
we move from principle in these things, if we as Christian reformers
educate our own taste, and bring our diet to God’s plan, then we may
exert an influence upon others in this matter, which will be pleasing to
God.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 119, 1890
652. It is not the chief end of man to gratify his appetite. There are
physical wants to be supplied; but because of this is it necessary that
man shall be controlled by appetite? Will the people who are seeking
to become holy, pure, refined, that they may be introduced into the
society of heavenly angels, continue to take the life of God’s creatures,
and enjoy their flesh as a luxury? From what the Lord has shown me,
this order of things will be changed, and God’s peculiar people will
exercise temperance in all things.—[
Christian Temperance and Bible
Hygiene, 48
]
Counsels on Health, 116, 1890
653. Those who have received instruction regarding the evils of
the use of flesh foods, tea, and coffee, and rich and unhealthful food
preparations, and who are determined to make a covenant with God by
sacrifice, will not continue to indulge their appetite for food that they
know to be unhealthful. God demands that the appetite be cleansed,
and that self-denial be practiced in regard to those things which are
not good. This is a work that will have to be done before His people
can stand before Him a perfected people.—
Testimonies for the Church
9:153, 154, 1909
654. It is for their own good that the Lord counsels the remnant
church to discard the use of flesh meats, tea, and coffee, and other