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full of disease. How can we, I ask, present such ones to the Lord for
healing?—
Letter 200, 1903
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714. Hot biscuits and flesh meats are entirely out of harmony
with health reform principles. If we would allow reason to take the
place of impulse and love of sensual indulgence, we should not taste
of the flesh of dead animals. What is more repulsive to the sense of
smell than a shop where flesh meats are kept for sale? The smell of
the raw flesh is offensive to all whose senses have not been depraved
by culture of the unnatural appetites. What more unpleasant sight to
a reflective mind than the beasts slain to be devoured? If the light
God has given in regard to health reform is disregarded, He will not
work a miracle to keep in health those who pursue a course to make
themselves sick.—Extracts from Unpublished Testimonies in Regard
to Flesh Foods, 2, 1884.
Leaders in Reform
715. While we do not make the use of flesh meat a test, while
we do not want to force any one to give up its use, yet it is our duty
to request that no minister of the conference shall make light of or
oppose the message of reform on this point. If, in the face of the light
God has given concerning the effect of meat eating on the system, you
will still continue to eat meat, you must bear the consequences. But
do not take a position before the people that will permit them to think
that it is not necessary to call for a reform in regard to meat eating;
because the Lord is calling for a reform. The Lord has given us the
work of proclaiming the message of health reform, and if you cannot
step forward in the ranks of those who are giving this message you
are not to make this prominent. In counterworking the efforts of your
fellow laborers, who are teaching health reform, you are out of order,
working on the wrong side.—
Letter 48, 1902
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716. As God’s messengers, shall we not bear a decided testimony
against the indulgence of perverted appetite?... God has provided an
abundance of fruits and grains, which may be healthfully prepared and
used in proper quantities. Why, then, do men continue to choose flesh
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