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

animal wants to be supplied; but because of this
necessity shall man become all animal?
You have set for your children a table of
unwholesome food, cooked in an unhealthful
manner. You have placed flesh meats before them,
and what is the result? Are they refined,
intellectual, obedient, conscientious, and
religiously inclined? You know this is not the case,
but entirely the contrary. Your manner of living has
strengthened the animal of your nature and
weakened the spiritual. You have transmitted to
your children a miserable legacy, a depraved nature
rendered still more depraved by your gross habits
of eating and drinking. Your table has completed
the work of making them what they are. The sin
lies at your door. You know that they are not
religiously inclined, that they will not submit to
restraint, but are inclined to disobedience and to
disrespect your authority. Your eldest son
especially is corrupt, partaking to a great degree of
the animal. Scarcely a trace of the divine can be
seen in his organism. You have brought up your
children to indulge their appetite when they please
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