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become diseased, and they give up to supposed disease, when none
really exists. It is slow murder for persons to confine themselves days,
weeks and months in doors, with but little out-door exercise.
Others are too active in body and mind. The mind of such must
rest as well as the body, and without it, will be overworked, and the
constitution must break down. Satan exults to see the human family
plunging themselves deeper, and deeper, into suffering and misery.
He knows that persons who have wrong habits, and unsound bodies,
cannot serve God so earnestly, perseveringly and purely as though
sound. A diseased body affects the brain. With the mind we serve the
Lord. The head is the capitol of the body. If the finger is pricked, the
nerves, like the telegraphic wires, bear the intelligence immediately to
the brain. Satan triumphs in the ruinous work he causes by leading the
human family to indulge in habits which destroy themselves, and one
another; for by this means he is robbing God of the service due him.
In order to preserve health, temperance in all things is necessary.
Temperance in labor, temperance in eating and drinking. Because of
intemperance a great amount of misery has been brought upon the
human family. The eating of pork has produced scrofula, leprosy
and cancerous humors. Pork-eating is still causing the most intense
suffering to the human race. Depraved appetites crave those things
which are the most injurious to health. The curse, which has rested
heavily upon the earth, and has been felt by the whole race of mankind,
has also been felt by the animals. The beasts have degenerated [in]
size, and length of years. They have been made to suffer more than
they otherwise would by the wrong habits of man.
There are but a few animals that are free from disease. They
have been made to suffer greatly for the want of light, pure air, and
wholesome food. When they are fattened, they are often confined
in close stables, and are not permitted to exercise, and to have free
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circulation of air. Many poor animals are left to breathe the poison
of filth which is left in barns and stables. Their lungs will not long
remain healthy while inhaling such impurities. Disease is conveyed
to the liver, and the entire system of the animal is diseased. They
are killed, and prepared for the market, and people eat freely of this
poisonous animal food. Much disease is caused in this manner. But
people cannot be made to believe that it is the meat they have eaten,
which has poisoned their blood, and caused their sufferings.