Has Not the Time Fully Come? by G. B. Starr

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 17, 1911

Has Not the Time Fully Come?

By G. B. Starr

MANY professed Christians are suffering from confused minds and uncertain and unhappy Christian experiences, who ought to be and might be steady, happy, radiant Christians, like their Leader, “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.”

The cause of this condition of mind in the majority of cases is a confused stomach condition. Flesh foods, tea and coffee, and bad combinations of sugar and starch, vegetables and fruits, create fermentation and autointoxication. Flesh food decays in the intestines, and poisons the whole life current. It causes hardening of the arteries, produces premature old age, and is the active cause of many of the sudden deaths from apoplexy. Tea and coffee poison the blood, and excite the nervous system until steady thinking and working are impossible.

We have been warned of the injurious effects of these things, and we wish to inquire if the time has not come to discard them, and give right plans and right instruction a thorough test?

Those who have adopted the reforms given by the Spirit of God, and have persevered, believing that God's ways must be the best for his children, have proved them to be so. In these matters we must walk by faith, and not follow taste or impulse. If we believe it must be best because it is right, and determine that we will prove it best in our personal experience, God will vindicate his word, and work in and through us to prove the excellence of his ways to health. Happiness, peace, assurance, are the sure reward of perfect obedience by faith. G. B. STARR.