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

that will hinder the growth of grace and the
knowledge of the truth. It has a tendency to lower,
to debase the man, to make him more animal in his
propensities. The higher powers of the mind are
overpowered by the lower. The brutish part of your
nature governs the spiritual. Those who profess to
be fitting for translation should not become
butchers.
Your family have partaken largely of flesh
meats, and the animal propensities have been
strengthened, while the intellectual have been
weakened. We are composed of what we eat, and if
we subsist largely upon the flesh of dead animals
we shall partake of their nature. You have
encouraged the grosser part of your organism,
while the more refined has been weakened. You
have repeatedly said in defense of your indulgence
of meat eating: "However injurious it may be to
others, it does not injure me, for I have used it all
my life." But you know not how well you might
have been if you had abstained from the use of
flesh meats. As a family, you are far from being
free from disease. You have used the fat of
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