有关肉食的未发表证言文摘
我心中百感交集，想对你们略作说明。我一直在回想上帝所赐健康改良的亮光。{PH031 1.1}
你们有没有认真虔诚地寻求明白上帝在这些事上的旨意呢?你们的借口是局外人要吃肉。我知道可以小心精湛地预备食物，在很在程度上取代肉食。但如果负责烹饪的人自己以肉食为主，她就会鼓励别人吃肉，堕落的食欲就会为肉食编造种种借口了。{PH031 1.2}
肉食很少出现在我的餐桌上。我会一连数周不尝肉味，而且在我的食欲受过训练之后，我就变得更强壮，能做更好的工作了。当我来到某地的时候，曾决定不尝肉味，但我几乎得不着别的东西吃;所以我就吃了一点肉。这竟使我的心脏有了一种不正常的动作，我就知道肉食不合适。……在某地吃肉唤醒了旧有的食欲，及至我回到家后，那种食欲就叫嚣着要放纵了。于是我就决心完全改变，在任何情况下都不吃肉，以免助长这种食欲。自从我回来之后，就没有一点肉食或黄油在我的餐桌上了。我们有牛奶、水果、谷类和蔬菜。我一度完全丧失了对食物的渴望，却像以色列人一样渴想吃肉，但我坚定地拒绝买肉或做肉食。我又虚弱又颤抖，就像每一个以肉食为生的人被剥夺了这种刺激品时会有的反应一样。然而现在我的食欲已经回来了。我喜欢吃面包和水果了。我的头脑通常都很清晰，我的力量也更坚稳了。我没有吃肉的人常见的那种软弱。我学了我的功课，而且，我希望学得很好。……{PH031 1.3}
辣饼干和肉食完全不符合健康改良的原则。我们如果愿意让理性来代替放纵情欲的冲动和爱好，就不会吃死畜的肉了。还有什么比肉市场的气味更恶心的呢?对于感官未被反常的食欲所败坏的人，生肉的气味是很难闻的。对于一个能沉思的头脑来说，还有什么场面比宰杀吞噬牲畜更令人不愉快的呢?如果无视上帝所赐健康改良的亮光，祂是不会施行奇迹来保护自招疾病之人的健康的。{PH031 2.1}
你们可能认为，不吃肉就不能进行工作。我以前也曾这么想过，但我知道在上帝原来的计划中，并没有提供死畜的肉来作为人类的食物。粗劣败坏的口味才会接受这种食物。想想死尸在胃里腐烂就叫人恶心。现的牲畜大都有病，所以我们要竭力完全戒除肉食。{PH031 2.2}
我现在的主张是完全戒除肉食。实行此事对于某些人会很困难，正如酒徒戒酒一样;但这种改变对他们会更有益。{PH031 2.3}
1896年8月30日
你们争辩说，肉食可以使人保持精力，这真叫我莫名其妙!如果你们肯放弃自我，你们的理性就会教导你们，肉食并不如你们所想象的那么有益。如果一个吸烟的人也用你们坚持继续以死畜的肉为食的理由，来请求继续吸烟，你们知道如何回答。{PH031 3.1}
你们不吃肉后所产生的虚弱感，正是我向你们提供的一个最有力的理由，证明你们不应当继续采用肉食。食肉的人食后觉得受到刺激，以为这种食物能使他们更健壮。人在戒用肉食之后，一时可能感到软弱，可是到了体内清除肉食的影响之后，他就不再觉得软弱，也不再想念以前所认为是他精力来源的肉食了。{PH031 3.2}
我有一个大家庭，常常有十六口之多。家中的男人耕地伐木。他们的工作最花气力，可是我们的餐桌上没有一点肉食。自从布莱顿帐棚大会以来，我们就戒除了肉食。我不想在任何时候有肉食出现在我的餐桌上，但有人向我强烈主张他不能吃这个那个，还说肉食比其他食物更适合他的胃，我就被引诱将肉食摆上餐桌。奶酪也开始有人食用了，因为有人喜欢它。但我不久就控制了事态。然而当一个女天主教徒将宰杀牲畜以满足堕落食欲的自私显在我面前时，我便向主屈膝，感到羞耻和哀伤;我对此事有了新的看法，就说：“我不会再资助屠夫了;我不会让死尸的肉上我的餐桌了。”{PH031 3.3}
我受上帝之灵的催促，把这个事实摆在几个人面前：他们的痛苦和疾病是因为无视赐给他们的健康改良的亮光。我告诉他们，他们采用的肉食虽然被认为是重要的，其实并不需要。他们的身体是由所吃的食物构成的。他们食用死畜的肉，所以他们的大脑、骨骼和肌肉都处在不健康的状况中。他们的血液因这种不合适的饮食而败坏。他们所吃的肉是有病的，所以全身变得臃肿而败坏。{PH031 4.1}
现在世人对于下意识的色情冷漠得令人惊奇。人们习惯于吃死畜的肉。这就刺激了人体内低级的情欲。在配制食物的时候，要不断让真光照耀出来，指导餐桌旁的人如何生活。医生被聘请来不是要给病人配给肉食的，因为这种食物已使他们生病了。应当寻求主。当你们寻到了祂，你们就会心里柔和谦卑。你们个人不也会以死畜的肉为生，不会拿一块肉放进儿女的口中。你们不会配给病人肉食、茶或咖啡，而要在客厅里演讲，说明简单清淡饮食的必要性。你们还会从餐桌上除去有害的食物。我们机构的医生虽经主多年的教导，若依然藉着言传身教让他们所照顾的人采用肉食，他们就不配作我们健康机构的负责人。主赐下健康改良的亮光，并不希望那些有权有势的人置之不理。主说的话是算数的。祂要藉着祂的话语得荣耀。祂赐亮光显明这些道理。饮食的问题需要认真研究。采用的治疗方法应当符合健康的原则。{PH031 4.2}
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1891年(1896年)11月5日
上帝希望祂的子民恢复到采用水果、蔬菜和谷物等简单的食物。祂曾引导以色列人进入旷野，他们在那里得不到肉食，而祂则把天上的粮赐给他们。“各人吃大能者的食物”(诗78:25)。可是他们依恋埃及的肉锅，哭号着要吃肉。其实主已应许过，如果他们顺从祂的旨意，祂就会领他们进入迦南地，在那里定居，成为纯净圣洁幸福的民族，所有的支派没有一个是软弱的，因为祂会除去他们中间一切的疾病。可是虽然他们有明确的“耶和华如此说”作为指导，却仍伤心哭泣，牢骚抱怨，直到主生他们的气了。因为他们执意吃死畜的肉，主就给他们吃祂已撤回的东西了。如果肉对他们的健康必不可少的话，主早就赐给他们吃了，可是祂既创造和救赎了他们，就要引导他们走过漫长的旷野路程中，教育和训练他们养成正确的习惯。主深知肉食对人体所造成的影响，祂希望有一个民族在身体的外形上，虽经长途跋涉，仍表现出神圣的标志。{PH031 5.1}
我在阅读你的来信时，印象深刻地想起了以色列人因为主没有给他们肉食而发的怨言。动物吃的是蔬菜和五谷。蔬菜为什么要等到变成了动物的肉，变成了动物的身体，我们才吃呢?难道我们必须吃死畜的肉才能得到蔬菜吗?上帝供应我们的始祖天然的水果。祂把伊甸园交给亚当修理看守，说：“各样树上的果子，你们可以随意吃。”一个动物不能以杀害另一个动物为食。人类堕落之后，吃肉得到容许，以便缩短长命人类的寿命。肉食得到允许是因为人们心里刚硬。许多人所坚持的大错误之一就是认为肌肉的力量靠的是肉食。然而谷物、水果、蔬菜这类简单的食物里含有制作优质血液所需要的所有营养成分，这是肉食所做不到的。{PH031 6.1}
当一个肢体骨折时，医生就建议自己的病人不要吃肉，因为会有开始发炎的危险。在烹饪餐食时采用调味品和香料对于消化的作用，就像人以为用茶、咖啡和酒可以帮助工作的人完成任务一样。在即刻的影响过去之后，情绪就会下降到常人之下，就如这些刺激品使情绪上涨到常人之上一样。体质削弱了，血质污染了，结果就必然是炎症。{PH031 6.2}
我的弟兄啊，既有主在饮食问题上所赐的一切亮光，你还哀叹自己不能自由吃肉，这显然与以色列人曾传到主耳中的怨言、哀叹和哭泣相似。{PH031 6.3}
我们的疗养院决不可按照旅馆的模式运作。肉食会改变人的性情并加强兽性。我们是由所吃的东西构成的，肉食过多会减弱我们的智力活动。学生们如果从不吃肉，就能在学业上取得更大的成就。人的肉体部分虽因肉食而增强，可是智力都相应地下降。如果杜绝肉食，就能更加成功地过好宗教生活，因为肉食会刺激人的情欲活跃起来，同时削弱人的道德和灵性。“因为情欲和圣灵相争，圣灵和情欲相争”(加5:17)。{PH031 7.1}
我们非常需要鼓励和培养纯洁高雅的思想，加强道德力而不是低级的肉欲。愿上帝帮助我们与放纵食欲决裂!吃死尸的想法对我来说是可憎的;一个活物以另一个活物的肉为食的思想是令人震惊的。没有必要这样。你有关虚弱的一切理由都证明你不应该再吃肉了。{PH031 7.2}
癌、瘤和一切炎症，大都是由肉食而引起的。{PH031 7.3}
根据上帝所赐给我的亮光，癌与瘤的流行大都是因食用死畜的恶劣生活所致。我诚恳而且虔诚地希望，你作为一名医师，不要继续在这个问题上盲目，因为与盲目在一起的是缺乏克制食欲、背十字架的道德勇气，即负起抑制本性情欲的责任。{PH031 7.4}
以肉为食，你所吃的汁液便进入你的血液循环，而我们既是由我们所吃的东西构成的，就变得动物化了;从而引起一种发热的状态，因为牲畜患病了，我们吃它们的肉，就是把病根种植在自己的组织和血液中。于是当暴露在有害空气的变换中的时候，我们就会更敏感;而当我们暴露在流行病和传染病中的时候，身体系统的状况就无力抵抗疾病了。{PH031 8.1}
关于这个题目，我已得到各方面的启示。人们还没有认识到食肉会引起死亡。如果认识到了，我们就不会听到为放纵吃死畜的肉所找的许多辩辞和借口了。我们有大量的好食物可以充饥，不必将动物的尸体搬到餐桌上，以构成我们的菜谱。{PH031 8.2}
我谈这个问题可以没有止境，但我忍住不说了。我实在希望你作为一名医生，不会藉着言传身教对抗主已赐给我要光照人心并引起彻底改良的亮光。我正在这些方面认真工作，而且决不会停止反对肉食的工作。我清楚地看到这个饮食问题已成为你属灵进步的绊脚石。你把绊脚石放在别人的道路上，这都是因为你因自私地满足食欲而使自己的感觉麻木了。希望你为基督的缘故看得更深，研究的更深一些，遵行上帝所乐意赐给你和其他人在这个问题上的亮光。
怀爱伦夫人{PH031 8.3}
PH031 - Extracts from Unpublished Testimonies in Regard to Flesh Foods
Many thoughts crowd into my mind, and I wish to express some of them to you. I have been calling to mind the light God has given me on health reform.?{PH031 1.1}[1]
Have you carefully and prayerfully sought to understand the will of God in these matters? The excuse has been that the outsiders would have a meat diet. I know that with care and skill, dishes could be prepared to take the place of meat in a large degree; but if one whose main dependence is meat performs the cooking, she can encourage meat-eating, and the depraved appetite will frame every kind of excuse for this kind of diet.?{PH031 1.2}[2]
Meat seldom appears on my table. For weeks at a time I would not taste it, and after my appetite had been trained, I grew stronger and could do better work. When I came to ----- I determined not to taste meat, but I could get scarcely anything else to eat; I therefore ate a little meat. It caused an unnatural action of the heart; I knew it was not the right kind of food.... The use of meat while at ----- awakened the old appetite, and after I returned home, it clamored for indulgence. Then I resolved to change entirely, and not to eat meat under any circumstances and thus encourage this appetite. Not a morsel of meat or butter has been on my table since I returned. We have milk, fruit, grains, and vegetables. For a time I lost all desire for food. Like the children?of Israel I hankered after flesh meats, but I firmly refused to have meat bought or cooked. I was weak and trembling as every one who subsists on meat will be when deprived of the stimulus. But now my appetite has returned. I enjoy bread and fruit. My head is generally clear, and my strength firmer. I have none of the goneness so common with meat-eaters. I have had my lesson, and, I hope, learned it well.?{PH031 1.3}[3]
Hot biscuits and flesh meats are entirely out of harmony with health-reform principles. If we would allow reason to take the place of impulse and love of sensual indulgence, we should not taste of the flesh of dead animals. What is more repulsive to the sense or smell than a shop where flesh meats are kept for sale? The smell of the raw flesh is offensive to all whose senses have not been depraved by culture of the unnatural appetites. What more unpleasant sight to a reflective mind than the beasts slain to be devoured? If the light God has given in regard to health reform is disregarded, he will not work a miracle to keep in health those who pursue a course to make themselves sick.?{PH031 2.1}[4]
You may think you cannot work without meat. I thought so once, but I know that in his original plan, God did not provide for the flesh of dead animals to compose the diet of man. It is a grossly perverted taste that will accept such food. To think of dead flesh rotting in the stomach is revolting. Then the fact that meat is largely diseased should lead us to make strenuous efforts to discontinue its use entirely.?{PH031 2.2}[5]
My position now is to let meat altogether alone. It will be hard for some to do this—as hard as for the rum-drinker to forsake his dram,—but they will be better for the change.?{PH031 2.3}[6]
(August 30, 1896.)
I was somewhat surprised at your argument as to why a meat-eating diet kept you in strength, for, if you put yourself out of the question, your reason will teach you that a meat diet is not of as much advantage as you suppose. You know how you would answer a tobacco devotee if he urged, as a plea for the use of tobacco, the arguments you have advanced as a reason why you should continue the use of the flesh of dead animals as food.?{PH031 3.1}[7]
The weakness you experience without the use of meat is one of the strongest arguments I could present to you as a reason why you should discontinue its use. Those who eat meat feel stimulated after eating this food, and they suppose they are made stronger. After one discontinues the use of meat, he may for a time feel a weakness, but when his system is cleansed from the effect of this diet, he no longer feels the weakness, and will cease to wish for that which he has pleaded for as essential to his strength.?{PH031 3.2}[8]
I have a large family which often numbers sixteen. In it there are men who work at the plow and who fell trees. These men have vigorous exercise, but not a particle of flesh of animals is placed upon our table. Meat has not been used by us since the Brighton camp-meeting. It was not my purpose to have it on my table at any time, but urgent pleas were made that such an one was unable to eat this or that, and that his stomach could take care of meat better than it could of anything else; then I was enticed to place it on my table. The use of cheese also began to creep in, because some liked cheese. But I soon controlled that. But when the selfishness of taking the lives of animals, to gratify a perverted appetite, was presented to me by a Catholic woman?kneeling at my feet. I felt ashamed and distressed; I saw it in a new light, and I said, “I will no longer patronize the butcher: I will not have the flesh of corpses on my table.”?{PH031 3.3}[9]
I have felt urged by the Spirit of God to set before several the fact that their suffering ill health was caused by a disregard of the light given them upon health reform. I have shown them that their meat diet, which was supposed to be essential, was not necessary, and that, as they were composed of what they ate, brain, bone, and muscle were in an unwholesome condition, because they lived on the flesh of dead animals; that their blood was being corrupted by this improper diet; that the flesh which they ate was diseased, and their entire system was becoming gross and corrupted.?{PH031 4.1}[10]
There is an alarming lethargy shown on the subject of unconscious sensualism. It is customary to eat the flesh of dead animals. This stimulates the lower passions of the human organism. In the preparation of food, the golden rays of light are to be kept shining, teaching those who sit at the table how to live. Physicians are not employed to prescribe a flesh diet for patients, for it is this kind of diet that has made them sick. Seek the Lord. When you find him, you will be meek and lowly of heart. Individually, you will not subsist upon the flesh of dead animals, neither will you put one morsel in the mouth of your children. You will not prescribe flesh, tea, or coffee for your patients, but will give talks in the parlor showing the necessity of a simple diet. You will cut away injurious things from your bill of fare. To have the physicians of our institutions educating, by precept and example, those under their care to use a meat diet, after years of instruction from the Lord, disqualifies them to be superintendents?of our health institutes. The Lord does not give light on health reform that it may be disregarded by those who are in positions of influence and authority. The Lord means just what he says, and he is to be honored in what he says. Light is to be given upon these subjects. It is the diet question that needs close investigation, and prescriptions should be made in accordance with health principles.?{PH031 4.2}[11]
(November 5, 1890 [1896].)
The Lord intends to bring his people back to live upon simple fruits, vegetables, and grains. He led the children of Israel into the wilderness, where they could not get a flesh diet, and he gave them the bread of heaven. Men did eat angels’ food, but they craved the flesh-pots of Egypt, and mourned and cried for flesh, notwithstanding that the Lord had promised them if they would submit to his will, he would carry them into the land of Canaan and establish them there a pure, holy, happy people, and there should not be a feeble one in all their tribes, for he would take away all sickness from among them. But, although they had a plain thus saith the Lord, they mourned and wept and murmured and complained until the Lord was wroth with them, and because they were so determined to have the flesh of dead animals, he gave them the very diet he had withheld from them. The Lord would have given them flesh if it had been essential for their health; but he created and redeemed them, and led them a long journey in the wilderness to educate and discipline and train them into correct habits. The Lord understood what the influence of flesh-eating is upon the human system. He would have a people that would, in their physical?appearance, bear the divine credentials notwithstanding their long journey.?{PH031 5.1}[12]
When I read your letter, I was forcibly reminded of the complainings of the children of Israel because they were not favored with a meat diet. The diet of animals is vegetables and grains; must the vegetables be animalized? Must they be incorporated into the system before you can get them? Must we obtain our vegetable diet by eating the flesh of dead creatures? God provided fruit in its natural state for our first parents. He gave Adam charge of the garden to dress it and to care for it, saying, “To you it shall be for meat;” one animal shall not destroy another animal for food. After the fall, the eating of flesh was suffered in order to shorten the period of the existence of the long-lived race. It was allowed because of the hardness of the hearts of men. One of the great errors that many insist upon is, that muscular strength is dependent upon animal food. But the simple grains, fruits of the trees, and vegetables have all the nutritive properties necessary to make good blood. This a flesh diet cannot do.?{PH031 6.1}[13]
When a limb is broken, physicians recommend their patients not to eat meat, as there will be danger of inflammation setting in. Condiments and spices used in the preparation of food for the table aid in digestion in the same way that tea, coffee, and liquor are supposed to help the laboring man perform his tasks. After the immediate effects are gone, they drop as correspondingly below par as they were elevated above par by these stimulating substances. The system is weakened, the blood is contaminated, and inflammation is the sure result.?{PH031 6.2}[14]
My brother, after all the light that has been?given on the diet question, your lamentations because you cannot exercise freedom in meat-eating is apparently similar to the complainings, lamentations, and weeping of the children of Israel in the ears of the Lord.?{PH031 6.3}[15]
Our sanitariums should never be conducted after the fashion of the hotel. A meat diet changes the disposition and strengthens 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 powers diminish proportionately. A religious life can be more successfully gained and maintained if meat is discarded, for this diet stimulates into intense activities lustful propensities, and enfeebles the moral and spiritual nature. “The flesh warreth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.”?{PH031 7.1}[16]
We greatly need to encourage and cultivate pure, chaste thoughts, and to strengthen the moral powers rather than the lower and carnal powers. God help us to break from our self-indulgent appetites! The idea of eating dead flesh is abhorrent to me; the thought of one living animal eating the flesh of another animal is shocking. There is no call for it. All your excuses made in regard to faintness is an argument why you should eat no more meat.?{PH031 7.2}[17] Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely caused by meat-eating.?{PH031 7.3}[18]
From the light God has given me, the prevalence of cancers and tumors is largely due to gross living on dead flesh. I sincerely and prayerfully hope that, as a physician, you will not forever be blind on this subject, for blindness is mingled with?a want of moral courage to deny our appetite, to lift the cross, which means, take up the very duties which cut across the natural passions.?{PH031 7.4}[19]
Feeding on flesh, the juices and fluids of what you eat pass into the circulation of your blood, and, as we are composed of what we eat, we become animalized; thus a feverish condition is created, because the animals are diseased, and by partaking of their flesh we plant the seeds of disease in our own tissue and blood. Then when exposed to the changes in a malarious atmosphere, these are more sensibly felt, also when we are exposed to prevailing epidemics and contagious diseases the system is not in condition to resist the disease.?{PH031 8.1}[20]
I have the subjects presented to me in different aspects. The mortality caused by meat-eating is not discerned; if it were, we would hear no more arguments and excuses in favor of the indulgence of the appetite for dead flesh. We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill of fare.?{PH031 8.2}[21]
I might go to any length upon this subject, but I forbear. I do hope that you, as a physician, will not by precept and example counterwork that which the Lord has given me to enlighten minds and bring in thorough reforms. I am working earnestly along these lines, and shall never cease working against the practise of meat-eating. I have had opened before me the stumbling-block which this diet question has been in your own spiritual advancement, and what a stumbling block you have placed in the paths of others, and all because your own sensibilities were blunted through the selfish gratification of the appetite. For Christ’s sake look deeper, study deeper, and act in accordance with the light God has been pleased to give you and others on this subject.---Mrs. E. G. White?{PH031 8.3}[22]
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