Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

nicely prepared, and appetizing. My brother, after
all the light that has been given on the diet
question, your lamentations because you can not
exercise freedom in meat-eating is apparently
similar to the complaining lamentations and
weeping children of Israel in the ears of the Lord. I
tell you that from the light the Lord has been
pleased to give me there is a continual taxing of the
human stomach with a wrong quality of food, also
with too large a quantity. The stomach is
overloaded and worn out when it should be capable
of performing good work. The amount of cooking
done is not at all necessary, neither should there be
any poverty-stricken diet, either in quality or
quantity, but the richness of the food and
complicated mixtures are destroying. Highly
seasoned meats, followed by rich pastry, is wearing
out the vital organs of digestion of children. Were
they accustomed to plain, wholesome food, their
appetites would not crave unnatural luxuries and
mixed preparations. Education, habit, and custom
make it difficult to reconstruct the family
arrangements. Meat given to children is not the
best thing to insure success. Make fruit the article
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