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

and its results. His mind is debased, his conscience
hardened, his moral sensibilities benumbed, and he
will be a ready victim for evil associates to lead
into sin and crime. Brother and Sister G, arouse
yourselves, I beg of you. You have not received the
light of health reform and acted upon it. If you had
restricted your appetites you would have been
saved much extra labor and expense; and, what is
of vastly more consequence, you would have
preserved to yourselves a better condition of
physical health and a greater degree of intellectual
strength to appreciate eternal truths; you would
have a clearer brain to weigh the evidences of truth
and would be better prepared to give to others a
reason of the hope that is in you. Your food is not
of that simple, healthful quality which will make
the best kind of blood. Foul blood will surely
becloud the moral and intellectual powers, and
arouse and strengthen the baser passions of your
nature. Neither of you can afford a feverish diet,
for it is at the expense of the health of the body and
the prosperity of your own souls and the souls of
your children.
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