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Christian Temperance
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in the prayer meeting, and in the conduct of their children. It has
been the curse of their lives. You cannot make them understand
the truths for these last days. God has bountifully provided for the
sustenance and happiness of all His creatures; and if His laws were
never violated, and all acted in harmony with the divine will, health,
peace, and happiness, instead of misery and continual evil, would
be experienced.
Another class who have taken hold of the health reform are very
severe. They take a position, and stand stubbornly in that position,
and carry nearly everything over the mark. Sister A was one of
these. She was not sympathizing, loving, and affectionate like our
divine Lord. Justice was nearly all she could see. She carried matters
further than Dr. Trall. Her patients had to even leave her because
they could not get enough to eat. Her impoverished diet gave her
impoverished blood.
Flesh meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices,
and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of
blood. The system is too heavily taxed in disposing of this kind of
food. The mince pies and the pickles, which should never find a
place in any human stomach, will give a miserable quality of blood.
And a poor quality of food, cooked in an improper manner, and
insufficient in quantity, cannot make good blood. Flesh meats and
rich food, and an impoverished diet, will produce the same results.
Now in regard to milk and sugar: I know of persons who have
become frightened at the health reform, and said they would have
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nothing to do with it, because it has spoken against a free use of
these things. Changes should be made with great care, and we
should move cautiously and wisely. We want to take that course
which will recommend itself to the intelligent men and women of the
land. Large quantities of milk and sugar eaten together are injurious.
They impart impurities to the system. Animals from which milk
is obtained are not always healthy. They may be diseased. A cow
may be apparently well in the morning, and die before night. Then
she was diseased in the morning, and her milk was diseased; but
you did not know it. The animal creation is diseased. Flesh meats
are diseased. Could we know that animals were in perfect health,
I would recommend that people eat flesh meats sooner than large
quantities of milk and sugar. It would not do the injury that milk