Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

muscle were in an unwholesome condition because
they lived on the flesh of dead animals. Their blood
was being corrupted by this improper diet. The
flesh which they ate was diseased, and their entire
system was becoming gross and corrupted. More
than this, I set before them the fact that by placing
several kinds of food in the stomach at one meal,
they were causing disease which was not attributed
to the food eaten. I told them that they would
realize much benefit if they would eat only two
meals a day.
There is an alarming lethargy shown on the
subject of unconscious sensualism. It is customary
to eat the flesh of dead animals. The human family
is under the despotism of custom and false
education, of hereditary and cultivated habits.
Appetite reigns as a king over the mind and reason.
The animal propensities are allowed to become a
controlling power. And proportionately as nature's
laws are transgressed, physical suffering and
disease of every stripe and type is seen; for every
transgression of the laws of physical life is a
transgression of the laws of God.
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