The World No Criterion
The world should be no criterion for us. It is fashionable to indulge
the appetite in luxurious food and unnatural stimulus, thus strengthen-
ing the animal propensities and crippling the growth and development
of the moral faculties. There is no encouragement given to any of the
sons or daughters of Adam that they may become victorious overcom-
ers in the Christian warfare unless they decide to practice temperance
in all things. If they do this, they will not fight as one that beateth the
air.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:35
(1876).
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