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who are teaching and practicing evil. Get out of the cities as fast as
possible.
Parents can secure small homes in the country, with land for cultiva-
tion, where they can have orchards and where they can raise vegetables
and small fruits to take the place of flesh-meat, which is so corrupting
the life-blood coursing through the veins.
Testimonies for the Church 3:171-172
The church in general at Battle Creek have not sustained the In-
stitute by their example. They have not honoured the light of health
reform by carrying it out in their families. The sickness that has vis-
ited many families in Battle Creek need not have been, if they had
followed the light God has given them. Like ancient Israel, they have
disregarded the light, and could see no more necessity of restricting
their appetite than did ancient Israel. The children of Israel would have
flesh-meats, and said, as many now say, We shall die without meat.
God gave rebellious Israel flesh, but His curse was with it. Thousands
of them died while the meat they desired was between their teeth. We
have the example of ancient Israel, and the warning for us not to do as
they did. Their history of unbelief and rebellion is left on record as a
special warning that we should not follow their example of murmuring
at God’s requirements. How can we pass on so indifferently, choosing
our own course, following the sight of our own eyes, and departing
farther and farther from God, as did the Hebrews? God can not do
great things for His people because of their hardness of heart and sinful
unbelief.
Testimonies for the Church 2:485-487
One family in particular have needed all the benefits they could
receive from the reform in diet; yet these very ones have been com-
pletely backslidden. Meat and butter have been used by them quite
freely, and spices have not been entirely discarded. This family could
have received great benefit from a nourishing, well-regulated diet.
The head of the family needed plain, nutritious food. His habits were
sedentary, and his blood moved sluggishly through the system. He
could not, like others, have the benefit of healthful exercise; therefore
his food should have been of the right quality and quantity. There has