Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

should strive to understand the wonderful science of the matchless compassion and
benevolence of God. Those who eat too largely and those who eat unhealthful food
bring trouble upon themselves, unfitting themselves for the service of God. It is
dangerous to eat meat, for animals are suffering from many deadly diseases. Those
who persist in eating the flesh of animals sacrifice spirituality to perverted appetite.
Their bodies become full of disease. --MS 66, 1901. {2MCP 390.1}
Intellectual Activity Diminished by a Heavy Meat Diet.--The intellectual, the
moral, and the physical powers are depreciated by the habitual use of flesh meats.
Meat eating deranges the system, beclouds the intellect, and blunts the moral
sensibilities.--2T 64 (1900). {2MCP 390.2}
What We Eat Diminishes Intellectual Activity.--We are composed of what we eat,
and eating much flesh will diminish intellectual activity. Students would accomplish
much more in their studies if they never tasted meat. When the animal part of the
human agent is strengthened by meat eating, the intellectual powers diminish
proportionately. {2MCP 390.3}
A religious life can be more successfully gained and maintained if meat is discarded,
for this diet stimulates into intense activities, lustful propensities, and enfeebles the
moral and spiritual nature. "The flesh . . . [warreth] against the spirit, and the spirit
against the flesh" (Galatians 5:17). {2MCP 390.4}
We greatly need to encourage and cultivate pure, chaste thoughts and to strengthen
the moral powers
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rather than the lower and carnal powers. God help us to awake from our self-indulgent
appetites!--Lt 72, 1896. (MM 277, 278.) {2MCP 390.5}
Meat Eating and Disposition.--As a general thing, the Lord did not provide His
people with flesh meat in the desert because He knew that the use of this diet would
create disease and insubordination. In order to modify the disposition and bring the
higher powers of the mind into active exercise, He removed from them the flesh of dead
animals.--MS 38, 1898. (CD 375.) {2MCP 391.1}
Results of Pork Eating.--It is not the physical health alone that is injured by pork
eating. The mind is affected and the finer sensibilities are blunted by the use of this
gross article of food.--HL (Part 1) 58, 1865. (CD 393.) {2MCP 391.2}
Imprudent Eater Disqualifies for Counseling.--Sugar is not good for the stomach.
It causes fermentation, and this clouds the brain and brings peevishness into the
disposition. And it has been proved that two meals are better than three for the health
of the system. [SEE COUNSELS ON DIET AND FOODS, "NUMBER OF MEALS," PP.
173-178.] {2MCP 391.3}
What a pity it is that often, when the greatest self-denial should be exercised, the
stomach is crowded with a mass of unhealthful food, which lies there to decompose.
The affliction of the stomach affects the brain. The imprudent eater does not realize that