Untitled article by W. C. G.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 1, 1867.

Green Devils.

By W. C. G.

THE following pointed remarks from Mr. Beecher under the above head, are worthy of a careful perusal. Many people wonder why they have no more spiritual enjoyment, or why they are so stupid in meeting, when the true solution of the matter lies in their unphysiological habits and gross abuses of their digestive organs.

W. C. G.

In my own experience, the cases that I have most despaired of among those who have come to me for spiritual help, have been persons that were nervously sick. I could do them no good because I could not reach the conditions of their body. If a person will drink green tea, which is like the quintessence of a thousand needle-points in its effects on a man's nerves, what is the use of his coming to me with complaints about blue devils? They are not blue devils; they are green devils! If a man gorges and oppresses his stomach, and so overlays the keys of life,—for the keys of life are located in the stomach, as the keys of the piano and the organ are located in their appropriate places in those instruments,—and he comes to me for deliverance from temptation, or for the removal of obscurities that stand between his soul and God, unless I can have control of that man's habits of eating, what can I do for him?