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enfeebled and so beclouded that sacred things would not be discerned,
but be placed upon the low level with common things. Light showing
that disease is caused by using this gross article of food, has come just
as soon as God’s people could bear it. Have you heeded the light?
Letter K 37, 1898
I present the word of the Lord God of Israel. Because of transgres-
sion, the curse of God has come upon the earth itself, and upon the
cattle, and upon all flesh. Human beings are suffering the result of
their own course of action in departing from the commandments of
God. The beasts also suffer under the curse.
Meat-eating should not come into the prescription for any invalids
from any physicians from among those who understand these things.
Disease in cattle is making meat-eating a dangerous matter. The Lord’s
curse is upon the earth, upon man, upon beasts, upon the fish of the
sea; and as transgression becomes almost universal, the curse will
be permitted to become as broad and as deep as the transgression.
Disease is contracted by the use of meat. The diseased flesh of these
dead carcasses is sold in the market places, and disease among men is
the sure result.
The Lord would bring His people into a position where they will
not touch or taste the flesh of dead animals. Then let not these things
be prescribed by any physicians who have a knowledge of the truth for
this time. There is no safety in the eating of the flesh of dead animals,
and in a short time the milk of the cows will also be excluded from
the diet of God’s commandment-keeping people. In a short time it
will not be safe to use anything that comes from the animal creation.
Those who take God at His word, and obey His commandments with
the whole heart, will be blessed. He will be their shield of protection.
But the Lord will not be trifled with. Distrust, disobedience, alienation
from God’s will and way will place the sinner in a position where the
Lord can not give him His divine favor....
Again I will refer to the diet question. We can not now do as we
have ventured to do in the past in regard to meat-eating. It has always
been a curse to the human family, but now it is made particularly so
in the curse which God has pronounced upon the herds of the field,
because of man’s transgression and sin. The disease upon animals