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

he was not nourished, and he thought that meat
would give him the needed strength. Had he been
suitably cared for, his table spread at the right time
with food of a nourishing quality, all the demands
of nature would have been abundantly supplied.
The butter and meat stimulate. These have injured
the stomach and perverted the taste. The sensitive
nerves of the brain have been benumbed, and the
animal appetite strengthened at the expense of the
moral and intellectual faculties. These higher
powers, which should control, have been growing
weaker, so that eternal things have not been
discerned. Paralysis has benumbed the spiritual and
devotional. Satan has triumphed to see how easily
he can come in through the appetite and control
men and women of intelligence, calculated by the
Creator to do a good and great work.
The case above referred to is not an isolated
one; if it were, I would not introduce it here. When
Satan takes possession of the mind, how soon the
light and instruction that the Lord has graciously
given, fade away and have no force! How many
frame excuses and make necessities which have no
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