Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

obbed. The means that has been lent to man to
relieve the necessities of the poor and to uplift and
sustain the fallen in righteousness and truth, is used
to please and glorify self. From the beginning to
the end the crime of tobacco-using, of opium and
drug medication, has its origin in perverted
knowledge. It is through plucking and eating of
poisonous fruit, through the intricacies of names
that the common people do not understand, that
thousands and ten thousands of lives are lost. This
great knowledge, supposed by man to be so
wonderful, God did not mean that man should
have. They are using the poisonous productions
that Satan himself has planted to take the place of
the tree of life, whose leaves are for the healing of
the nations. Men are dealing in liquors and
narcotics that are destroying the human family.
Deathly mixtures are used, that make men mad,
and murder and violence are prevailing
everywhere.
The time is near when all these wicked
inventions will come to an end. At the last the
passion for obtaining means by fraud will increase.
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