Confrontation - Ellen G. White

the control of reason will indulge them at the
expense of physical and moral obligations.
The victims of a depraved appetite, goaded on
by Satan’s continual temptations, will seek
indulgence at the expense of health and even life,
and will go to the bar of God as self-murderers.
Many have so long allowed habit to master them
that they have become slaves to appetite. They
have not the moral courage to persevere in selfdenial,
and to endure suffering for a time through
restraint and denial of the taste, in order to master
the vice. This class refuse to overcome as did their
Redeemer. Did not Christ endure physical suffering
and mental anguish on man’s account in the
wilderness?
Many have so long allowed appetite and taste
to control reason that they have not moral power to
persevere in self-denial and endure suffering for a
time, until abused nature can take up her work and
healthy action be established in the system. Very
many with perverted tastes shrink at the thought of
restricting their diet, and they continue their
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