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Section 15—Diet and Health
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of faith shall with earnest prayer dedicate themselves to God without
reserve, the Lord will honor their faith and will bless them with a
clear mind.—
Letter 73, 1896
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Appeal to a Physician
You cannot understand how much more effectual your services
in the religious interest would be, and how much more satisfactory to
yourself, if you would follow the light which has been given you....
Shall your appetites, habits, and practices be of that order that you
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will educate those who are connected with you to make excuses
similar to those that you have made for the indulgence of eating the
flesh of dead animals?
Back to the Primitive Diet
The Lord intends to bring His people back to live upon simple
fruits, vegetables, and grains. He led the children of Israel into the
wilderness, where they could not get a flesh diet; and He gave them
the bread of heaven. “Man did eat angels’ food.” But they craved the
fleshpots of Egypt, and mourned and cried for flesh, notwithstanding
that the Lord had promised them that if they would submit to His
will He would carry them into the land of Canaan and establish them
there, a pure, holy, happy people, and there should not be a feeble
one in all their tribes; for He would take away all sickness from
among them.
The Murmuring of Israel
But although they had a plain “Thus saith the Lord,” they
mourned and wept, and murmured and complained, until the Lord
was wroth with them. Because they were so determined to have the
flesh of dead animals, He gave them the very diet He had withheld
from them....
The Lord could have given them flesh had it been essential for
their health, but He who created and redeemed them, led them the
long journey in the wilderness to educate and discipline and train
them in correct habits. The Lord understood what the influence of
flesh eating has upon the human system. He would have a people