Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

is covered with reproach and shame, you have
shunned it. You need to carry out the health reform
in your life; to deny yourself, and eat and drink to
the glory of God. Abstain from fleshly lusts which
war against the soul. You need to practice
temperance in all things. Here is a cross which you
have shunned. To confine yourself to a simple diet,
which will preserve you in the best condition of
health, is a task to you. Had you lived up to the
light which Heaven has permitted to shine upon
your pathway, much suffering might have been
saved your family. Your own course of action has
brought the sure result. While you continue in this
course, God will not come into your family and
especially bless you and work a miracle to save
your family from suffering. A plain diet, free from
spices and flesh meats and grease of all kinds,
would prove a blessing to you and would save your
wife a great amount of suffering, grief, and
despondency.
You have not pursued a course which would
assure to you the blessing of God. If you would
have His blessing attend you, and His presence
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