Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Chapter 54
Results of Indulgence in
Meat-Eating
From MS. 1, '88 (P).
Shall meat become the staple article of food
because those who are in responsible positions
have been educating themselves to enjoy a meat
diet? Shall the physicians be free to indulge their
own perverted habits, to gratify appetites as they
choose, and thus mold the sentiments of the
institution? Shall those who have had great light,
and who are professedly seeking to walk in that
light, and to reflect the light, see their efforts
counterworked by both precept and example in our
sanitariums? In the name of the Lord I am charged
to testify that those who plead for indulgence of
appetite in meat-eating are the very ones who need
to reform, and bring themselves into line. They will
not give directions for the patients to eat the flesh
of dead animals, because their own appetites crave
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