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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
The moral powers are weakened, because men and women will not
live in obedience to the laws of health, and make this great subject a
personal duty. Parents bequeath to their offspring their own perverted
habits, and loathsome diseases corrupt the blood and enervate the brain.
The majority of men and women remain in ignorance of the laws of
their being, and indulge appetite and passion at the expense of intellect
and morals, and seem willing to remain in ignorance of the result of
their violation of nature’s laws. They indulge the depraved appetite in
the use of slow poisons, which corrupt the blood, and undermine the
nervous forces, and in consequence bring upon themselves sickness
and death. Their friends call the result of this course the dispensation
of Providence. In this they insult Heaven. They rebelled against the
laws of nature, and suffered the punishment for thus abusing her laws.
Suffering and mortality now prevail everywhere, especially among
children. How great is the contrast between this generation and those
who lived during the first two thousand years!