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Medical Ministry
that would, in their physical appearance, bear the divine credentials
notwithstanding their long journey....
One of the great errors that many insist upon is that muscular
strength is dependent upon animal food. But the simple grains, fruits
of the trees, and vegetables have all the nutritive properties necessary
to make good blood. This a flesh diet cannot do....
We are composed of what we eat, and eating much flesh will
diminish intellectual activity. Students would accomplish much more
in their studies if they never tasted meat. When the animal part of the
human agent is strengthened by meat eating, the intellectual powers
diminish proportionately. A religious life can be more successfully
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gained and maintained if meat is discarded, for this diet stimulates
into intense activities lustful propensities, and enfeebles the moral
and spiritual nature. “The flesh warreth against the spirit, and the
spirit against the flesh.”
We greatly need to encourage and cultivate pure, chaste thoughts,
and to strengthen the moral powers rather than the lower and carnal
powers. God help us to awake from our self-indulgent appetites! ...
A Cause of Mortality
Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely
caused by meat eating.
From the light God has given me, the prevalence of cancers and
tumors is largely due to gross living on dead flesh. I sincerely and
prayerfully hope that, as a physician, you will not forever be blind on
this subject, for blindness is mingled with a want of moral courage
to deny your appetite, to lift the cross, which means to take up the
very duties that cut across the natural appetites and passions....
I have the subject presented to me in different aspects. The
mortality caused by meat eating is not discerned; if it were, we would
hear no more arguments and excuses in favor of the indulgence of
the appetite for dead flesh. We have plenty of good things to satisfy
hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill
of fare....
I have had opened before me the stumbling block which this
diet question has been to your own spiritual advancement, and what
a stumbling block you have placed in the pathway of others, and