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Medical Ministry
and into your family the blessing that comes from following the
principles of health reform, do not harm others by opposing the light
God has given on this subject.
While we do not make the use of flesh-meat a test, while we
do not want to force anyone 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 reform.
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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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An Appeal to Parents
The Lord will cut His work short in righteousness. The earth is
corrupted under the inhabitants thereof. Disease of every kind is now
afflicting the human family. The misery created by the corruption
that is in the world through lust is developing in a startling manner
in the commission of crimes of every description. Robbery, murder,
sensuality, the cruelty of satanic powers—these and many other evils
are seen on every hand. We are surrounded by unseen dangers.
When will those who know the truth take their stand on the side
of right principles for time and for eternity? When will they be true
to the principles of health reform? When will they learn that it is
dangerous to use flesh-meat?
I am instructed to say that if meat eating ever were safe, it is
not safe now. Diseased animals are taken to the large cities and
to the villages, and sold for food. Many of these poor creatures
would have died of disease in a very short time if they had not been
slaughtered; yet the carcasses of these diseased animals are prepared