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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
fervent prayer to God have moved the Lord to unlock His treasuries
of truth to their understanding. Wily opponents and boasting Goliaths
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have had to be met, sometimes face to face, but more frequently with
the pen. Satan has urged men on to fierce opposition, to blind the
eyes and darken the understanding of the people. The few who had
the interest of the cause and truth of God at heart, were aroused to its
defense. They did not seek for ease, but were willing to venture even
their lives for the truth’s sake.
Testimonies for the Church 2:692
When the time shall come, in the providence of God, for the world
to be tested upon the truth for that time, minds will be exercised by
His Spirit to search the Scriptures, even with fasting and with prayer,
until link after link is searched out, and united in a perfect chain.
The Facts of Faith 2:130-131
Persons who have indulged their appetite to eat freely of meat,
highly-seasoned gravies, and various kinds of rich cakes and preserves,
cannot immediately relish a plain, wholesome, and nutritious diet.
Their taste is so perverted that they have no appetite for a wholesome
diet of fruits, plain bread and vegetables. They need not expect to relish
at first food so different from that which they have been indulging
themselves to eat. If they can not at first enjoy plain food, they should
fast until they can. That fast will prove to them of greater benefit than
medicine, for the abused stomach will find that rest which it has long
needed, and real hunger can be satisfied with a plain diet. It will take
time for the taste to recover from the abuses which it has received, and
to gain its natural tone. But perseverance in a self-denying course of
eating and drinking will soon make plain, wholesome food palatable,
and it will soon be eaten with greater satisfaction than the epicure
enjoys over his rich dainties.
The Facts of Faith 2:133-134
Indulging in eating too frequently, and in too large quantities, over-
taxes the digestive organs, and produces a feverish state of the system.
The blood becomes impure, and then diseases of various kinds occur.
A physician is sent for, who prescribes some drug which gives present