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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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Meat-Eating<br />

I have never felt that it was my duty to say that<br />

no one should ever taste of meat under any<br />

circumstances. To say this when people have been<br />

educated to live on flesh to so great an extent,<br />

would be to carry matters to extremes. I have never<br />

felt that it was my duty to make sweeping<br />

assertions. What I have said, I have said under a<br />

sense of duty, but I have been guarded in my<br />

statements, because I did not want to give occasion<br />

for any one to be a conscience for another.<br />

Sister Davis has just called my attention to an<br />

article printed in the Youth's Instructor of May 31,<br />

1894. The question asked is, Did I design to have<br />

this sentence just as it appeared in the Instructor? I<br />

am surprised to see it just as it appears -- "A meat<br />

diet is not the most wholesome of diets, <strong>and</strong> yet I<br />

would take the position that meat should not be<br />

discarded by everyone." I can not explain why this<br />

appears just as it does. Since the campmeeting at<br />

Brighton I have absolutely banished meat from my<br />

table. It is an understood thing that whether I am at<br />

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