Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Chapter 20
Hearing and Doing
By eating to excess the stomach is made to do
double work, and the mind is affected and unfit to
take in and comprehend eternal realities. Those
who indulge the appetite to the expense of the brain
and nerve power will not, and can not, take the
messages the Lord gives, the spiritual bread from
heaven, which is the word of God. There are
thousands upon thousands who are intemperate in
eating, and the result is that the lust of the flesh is
warring against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh.
These are persons who have had great
privileges and great light, and they have supposed
that they would in time enter the ministry. I told
them that we would just as soon send wolves
among the sheep; for their consciences were seared
as with a hot iron. The process that has been made
thus, has been a disregard in little things, a
deviation in character from right principles in little
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