Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

of diet to be placed upon your table which shall
constitute the bill of fare. The pieces of fruit
mingled with the bread will be highly enjoyed.
Good, ripe, undecayed fruit is the thing we should
thank God for because it is beneficial to the health.
Try it. To educate your children to subsist upon a
meat diet would be hurtful to them. It is much
easier to create an unnatural appetite than to correct
and reform the taste after it has become second
nature.
Our sanitariums should never be conducted
after the fashion of a hotel, I am very sorry that it is
such a difficult matter for you to deny your appetite
and reform your habits of eating and drinking. A
meat diet changes the disposition, and strengthens
the animalism. We are composed of what we eat,
and eating much flesh will diminish intellectual
activity. Students would accomplish much more in
their studies if they never tasted meat. When the
animal part of the human agent is strengthened by
meat-eating, the intellectual diminish
proportionately. A religious life can be more
successfully gained and maintained if meat is
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