Flesh Foods
145
Be careful what attitude you assume, lest you be found causing
division. My brother, even while you fail to bring into your life and
into your family the blessing that comes from following the principles
of health reform, do not harm others by opposing the light God has
given on this subject.
While we do not make the use of flesh-meat a test, while we do not
want to force any one to give up its use, yet it is our duty to request
that no minister of the Conference shall make light of or oppose the
message of reform on this point. If, in the face of the light God has
given concerning the effect of meat-eating on the system, you will
still continue to eat meat, you must bear the consequences. But do
not take a position before the people that will permit them to think
that it is not necessary to call for a reform in regard to meat-eating;
because the Lord is calling for a reform. The Lord has given us the
work of proclaiming the message of health reform, and if you can not
step forward in the ranks of those who are giving this message you
are not to make this prominent. In counterworking the efforts of your
fellow laborers, who are teaching health reform, you are out of order,
working on the wrong side.
Letter B 200, 1903
If things were as they should be in the households that make up our
churches, we might do double service for the Lord. The light given
me is that a most decided message must be borne in regard to health
reform. Those who use flesh-meat strengthen the lower propensities
and prepare the way for disease to fasten upon them. There are those
among Seventh-day Adventists who will not heed the light given them
in regard to this matter. They make flesh-meat a part of their diet.
Disease comes upon them. Sick and suffering as a result of their own
wrong course, they ask for the prayers of the servants of God. But
how can the Lord work in their behalf when they are not willing to do
His will, when they refuse to heed His instruction in regard to health
reform?
For thirty years the light on health reform has been coming to the
people of God, but many have made it a subject of jest. They have
continued to use tea, coffee, spices, and flesh-meat. Their bodies are