Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

to the physical well-being, and we should learn to
do without them.
In this experience of backsliding from the
principles of health reform, our people have been
repeating the history of the Children of Israel in the
wilderness during their forty years of travel. Those
who continue to follow their own course in this
respect, eating and drinking as they please, will
gradually grow careless of the instructions of the
Lord regarding other phases of the present truth;
they will surely reap as they have sown.
I have been instructed that the students in our
schools are not to be served with flesh foods or
with food preparations that will cause disturbance
of the stomach. Nothing that will serve to
encourage a desire for stimulants should be placed
on the table.
I appeal to young and old and to middle-aged.
Deny your appetite of those things that are doing
you injury. Serve the Lord by sacrifice. Let the
good work begin at Washington, and go forth from
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