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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Testimonies for the Church 5:135
Many are incapacitated for labor both mentally and physically by
over-eating and the gratification of the lustful passions. The animal
propensities are strengthened, while the moral and spiritual nature is
enfeebled. When we shall stand around the great white throne, what a
record will the lives of many then present. Then will they see what they
might have done had they not debased their God-given powers. Then
will they realize what height of intellectual greatness they might have
attained, had they given to God all the physical and mental strength
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He had entrusted to them. In their agony of remorse they will long to
have their lives to live over again.
Testimonies for the Church 5:196, 197
God has granted to this people great light, yet we are not placed
beyond the reach of temptation. Who among us are seeking help from
the gods of Ekron? Look on this picture—not drawn from imagination.
In how many, even among Seventh-day Adventists, may its leading
characteristics be seen? An invalid—apparently very conscientious,
yet bigoted and self-sufficient—freely avows his contempt for the
laws of health and life, which divine mercy has led us as a people to
accept. His food must be prepared in a manner to satisfy his morbid
cravings. Rather than sit at a table where wholesome food is provided,
he will patronize restaurants, because he can there indulge appetite
without restraint. A fluent advocate of temperance, he disregards its
foundation principles. He wants relief, but refuses to obtain it at the
price of self-denial. That man is worshipping at the shrine of perverted
appetite. He is an idolater. The powers which sanctified and ennobled,
might be employed to honor God, are weakened and rendered of little
service. An irritable temper, a confused brain, and unstrung nerves, are
among the results of his disregard of nature’s laws. He is inefficient,
unreliable.
Testimonies for the Church 5:162-163
I have been shown that some of our camp-meetings are far from
being what the Lord designed they should be. The people come un-
prepared for the visitation of God’s Holy Spirit. Generally the sisters
devote considerable time before the meeting to the preparations of gar-