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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 18, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 10

EATING AND DRINKING.

In the days before the flood we read that the careless inhabitants of the world were “eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark.” As it was then, so, says the prophetic record, it shall be in the last days when the Son of man is about to be revealed. The following is the description which the N. Y. Independent gives of the proceedings at a modern fashionable dinner table. Look well at the picture and see how it compares with the copy set in the days of Noah.

“It is very common, among people who would be shocked to hear themselves called profligate, wasteful, extravagant, or intemperate, to sit three or four hours at a dinner, to drink half a dozen different kinds of wine, to partake of eight or ten different dishes, to excite their appetites by stimulants, and finally to retire cloyed, stupefied, and verging upon apoplexy and death. Are such habits becoming to rational beings, to say nothing of republicans, or Christians?”