Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

eating a burden to those who eat no more than they
feel their stomachs can properly care for. Health
reformers need not observe these inventions of
fashion. If you are where those eating to excess
continually pass the tempting dishes, it is well to
break human rules and pass quietly from the table.
Eating merely to please the appetite is a
transgression of nature's laws. Often this
intemperance is felt at once in the form of
headache and indigestion and colic. A load has
been placed upon the stomach that it cannot care
for, and a feeling of oppression comes. The head is
confused, the stomach is in rebellion. But these
results do not always follow overeating. In some
cases the stomach is paralysed. No sensation of
pain is felt, but the digestive organs lose their vital
force, the foundation of the human machinery is
gradually undermined, and life is rendered very
unpleasant.
By indulging in a wrong course of action in
eating and drinking, thousands upon thousands are
ruining their health. And not only is health ruined,
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