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harmful foods. There are plenty of other things on which we can
subsist that are wholesome and good.—
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Perfecting Holiness
655. Greater reforms should be seen among the people who claim
to be looking for the soon appearing of Christ. Health reform is to
do among our people a work which it has not yet done. There are
those who ought to be awake to the danger of meat eating, who are
still eating the flesh of animals, thus endangering the physical, mental,
and spiritual health. Many who are now only half converted on the
question of meat eating will go from God’s people to walk no more
with them.
In all our work we must obey the laws which God has given, that
the physical and spiritual energies may work in harmony. Men may
have a form of godliness, they may even preach the gospel, and yet be
unpurified and unsanctified. Ministers should be strictly temperate in
their eating and drinking, lest they make crooked paths for their feet,
turning the lame—those weak in the faith—out of the way. If, while
proclaiming the most solemn and important message God has ever
given, men war against the truth by indulging wrong habits of eating
and drinking, they take all the force from the message they bear.
Those who indulge in meat eating, tea drinking, and gluttony are
sowing seeds for a harvest of pain and death. The unhealthful food
placed in the stomach strengthens the appetites that war against the
soul, developing the lower propensities. A diet of flesh meat tends to
develop animalism. A development of animalism lessens spirituality,
rendering the mind incapable of understanding truth.
The word of God plainly warns us that unless we abstain from
fleshly lusts, the physical nature will be brought into conflict with the
spiritual nature. Lustful eating wars against health and peace. Thus
a warfare is instituted between the higher and the lower attributes of
the man. The lower propensities, strong and active, oppress the soul.
The highest interests of the being are imperiled by the indulgence of
appetites unsanctioned by Heaven.—[
The Review and Herald, May
27, 1902
]
Counsels on Health, 575, 576
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656. Those who claim to believe the truth are to guard carefully
the powers of body and mind, so that God and His cause will not