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

animals, which God in His word expressly forbids:
"It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations
throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither
fat nor blood." "Moreover ye shall eat no manner
of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any
of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth
any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off
from his people."
You have flesh, but it is not good material. You
are worse off for this amount of flesh. If you
should each come down to a more spare diet,
which would take from you twenty-five or thirty
pounds of your gross flesh, you would be much
less liable to disease. The eating of flesh meats has
made a poor quality of blood and flesh. Your
systems are in a state of inflammation, prepared to
take on disease. You are liable to acute attacks of
disease and to sudden death because you do not
possess the strength of constitution to rally and
resist disease. There will come a time when the
strength and health you have flattered yourself you
possessed will prove to be weakness. It is not the
chief end of man to glorify his stomach. You have
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