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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
is seeking to possess purity of spirit bear in mind that in Christ there
is power to control the appetite.
The Review and Herald, January 25, 1881
Let none who profess godliness regard with indifference the health
of the body, and flatter themselves that intemperance is no sin, and
will not affect their spirituality. A close sympathy exists between the
physical and moral nature.
The Youth’s Instructor, May 31, 1894 (Healthful Living, 40.6)
Eating, drinking and dressing all have a direct bearing upon our
spiritual advancement.
Tract Regarding the Use of Flesh Foods (Eight page tract)
When the animal part of the human agent is strengthened by meat-
eating, the intellectual powers diminish proportionately. A religious
life can be more successfully gained and maintained if meat is dis-
carded, for this diet stimulates into intense activities lustful propensi-
ties, and enfeebles the moral and spiritual nature. “The flesh warreth
against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.”
File 48, 1902
It has been clearly presented to me that God’s people are to take a
firm stand against meat-eating. Would God for thirty years give His
people the message that if they desire to have pure blood and clear
minds, they must give up the use of flesh-meat, if He did not want them
to heed this message? By the use of flesh-meats the animal nature is
strengthened and the spiritual nature weakened. Such men as you, who
are engaged in the most solemn and important work ever entrusted to
human beings, need to give special heed to what they eat.
The Ministry of Healing, 317
Is it not time that all should aim to dispense with flesh foods? How
can those who are seeking to become pure, refined, and holy, that they
may have the companionship of heavenly angels, continue to use as
food anything that has so harmful an effect on soul and body?
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