Flesh Foods
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to indulge their appetite when they please and as they please. Your
example has taught them that they live to eat; that the gratification of
appetite is about all that is worth living for. There is a work for you
to do, Bro. H. You have been like a man asleep or paralyzed. It is
time that you make a mighty effort to save the younger members of
your family. The influence of your eldest son is only evil over them.
Correct your table. A depraved, stimulating diet is strengthening the
animal passions of your children. Of all the families I am acquainted
with, yours most needs to dispense with flesh-meats and grease and
learn to cook hygienically.
Sister H is a woman whose blood is corrupt. Her system is full of
scrofulous humors from the eating of flesh-meats. The use of swine’s
flesh in your family has imparted a bad quality of blood. Sister H needs
to confine herself strictly to a diet of grains, fruits, and vegetables,
cooked without flesh or grease of any kind. It will take quite a length
of time of strictly healthful diet to place you in better conditions of
health, where you will be rightly related to life. It is impossible for
those who make free use of flesh-meats to have an unclouded brain
and an active intellect....
After they have reduced their physical strength by a reduced quan-
tity and a poor quality of food, some conclude that their former way
of living is the best. The system must be nourished. Yet we do not
hesitate to say that flesh-meat is not necessary for health or strength.
If used it is because a depraved appetite craves it. Its use excites the
animal propensities to increased activity, and strengthens the animal
passions. When the animal propensities are increased, the intellectual
and moral powers are decreased. The use of the flesh of animals tends
to cause a grossness of body, and benumbs the fine sensibilities of the
mind.
Will the people who are preparing to become holy, pure, and
refined, that they may be introduced into the society of heavenly angels,
continue to take the life of God’s creatures and subsist on their flesh
and enjoy it as a luxury? From what the Lord has shown me, this order
of things will be changed, and God’s peculiar people will exercise
temperance in all things. Those who subsist largely upon flesh, can not
avoid eating the meat of animals which are to a greater or less degree
diseased. The process of fitting animals for market produces in them
disease; and fitted in as healthful a manner as they can be, they become