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Faithfulness in Health Reform
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the higher powers of the being. If meat eating was ever healthful, it
is not safe now. Cancers, tumors, and pulmonary diseases are largely
caused by meat eating.
We are not to make the use of flesh food a test of fellowship, but
we should consider the influence that professed believers who use
flesh foods have over others. As God’s messengers, shall we not say
to the people: “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever
ye do, do all to the glory of God”?
1 Corinthians 10:31
. Shall we
not bear a decided testimony against the indulgence of perverted
appetite? Will any who are ministers of the gospel, proclaiming the
most solemn truth ever given to mortals, set an example in returning
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to the fleshpots of Egypt? Will those who are supported by the
tithe from God’s storehouse permit themselves by self-indulgence
to poison the life-giving current flowing through their veins? Will
they disregard the light and warnings that God has given them?
The health of the body is to be regarded as essential for growth in
grace and the acquirement of an even temper. If the stomach is
not properly cared for, the formation of an upright, moral character
will be hindered. The brain and nerves are in sympathy with the
stomach. Erroneous eating and drinking result in erroneous thinking
and acting.
All are now being tested and proved. We have been baptized
into Christ, and if we will act our part by separating from everything
that would drag us down and make us what we ought not to be, there
will be given us strength to grow up into Christ, who is our living
head, and we shall see the salvation of God.
Only when we are intelligent in regard to the principles of health-
ful living can we be fully aroused to see the evils resulting from
improper diet. Those who, after seeing their mistakes, have courage
to change their habits, will find that the reformatory process requires
a struggle and much perseverance; but when correct tastes are once
formed, they will realize that the use of the food which they formerly
regarded as harmless was slowly but surely laying the foundation
for dyspepsia and other diseases.
Fathers and mothers, watch unto prayer. Guard strictly against
intemperance in every form. Teach your children the principles of
true health reform. Teach them what things to avoid in order to
preserve health. Already the wrath of God has begun to be visited