p. 653 | Lust Excitants

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 41.

Lust Excitants.

Pork, pastry, pepper, spice, coffee, tea, grease, concentrated and fermented foods, etc., feed the fleshly lusts, and befoul our bodies with disease. Heating and stimulating foods are inflaming the passions of professedly pious people until they are sensual in a great degree. This is one of the most prolific sources of intemperance. The systems of these ravenous and omnivorous feeders are choked. The digestive apparatus is clogged with indiscriminate stuffing, and requires to be whipped up to its work. This sends thousands to the saloons. Children who are fed promiscuous foods fall an easy prey to vice. Gluttony is breeding more distempers, plagues, and crimes than any other evil that curses the world.

The maladies that torment mankind might be diminished ninety per cent. by correcting the voracious and heedless habits of eating. Simple diet of unbolted wheat flour and other grains with ripe fruits, regular habits of eating and rest, outdoor exercise, good ventilation, frequent baths, avoiding feather beds, and discarding drugs, with a life of obedience, will bring health to body and brain. There is great need of reform in these matters even among Christian professors. Thousands of professed Christians are consumptive, scrofulous, and cancerous, but persist in the use of their excitants! We ought to have a Hygienic Institute in every church.—Sel.