SWINE’S FLESH | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 25, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 39.

SWINE’S FLESH.

A CONTRIBUTOR to the Sabbath Recorder gives some good testimony to evil effects of the use of swine’s flesh as food, from which we take the following:—

“What is the testimony of history and experience to the effect of swine’s flesh upon the human system, as regards health and long life? Here we are confronted with the great fact that the Jews, observing the dietary laws of Moses, are and have always been, the healthiest people on the globe. In A.D. 1348, when the Black Plague almost depopulated Europe, not an orthodox Jew was touched; and because the Jews would not take the disease and die like their Gentile neighbors, they were bitterly persecuted, tortured, and in many cases put to death—charged with having poisoned the wells and springs, and thus having caused the plague. It is well known that this people have general, if not absolute, immunity from the cholera plague. Some years ago, when the cholera swept through London, but one Jew died of the disease. At Toulon, in 1884, but two Jews fell victims to the cholera, altho one-fifth of the population was Jewish. A lecturer in Owen’s College, Manchester, England, some years ago made the statement that no Jew was ever known to have cancer. The London Lancet, a medical journal of wide repute, took it up and requested reports from all cancer hospitals. It is believed that nothing contradictory to the lecturer’s statement has yet been found.

“A writer in Michigan speaks of being accustomed to a serious attack of bilious fever every spring which laid him up for weeks, thus incurring debt and loss of time. He says, ‘When I stopped the use of pork I was free. We have decided to let swine alone. If God created the swine, did He not know whether clean or unclean? In my native land the common people can not afford to eat pork, neither have they skin diseases or rheumatism. There are no weakly women there, except the higher, pork-eating class.’”

“The truth set forth in these articles first came to the attention of the writer thirteen years ago. Previous to this time he and his family were troubled with boils, salt-rheum, diphtheria, etc.; but from that date until this hour the product of the hog—pork, lard, ham, sausage, sparerib, everything—has been utterly banished from their home; and the blessed result of immunity from the diseases named, as well as benefits in many other ways, makes them very desirous that others should share the blessings through having their attention called to this important matter.

“Facts and figures similar to the above are abundant for such as have eyes to see and ears to hear; and all who believe that life is worth living will do well to study the laws given by Moses, and heed well their precepts.

“And it may be, in view of the facts cited, that the earnest seeker for truth and blessing may find a new meaning in such scriptures as, ‘My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.’ ‘Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.’ Prov. 3:1, 2:4, 4:10.”

The above facts could be attested by many thousands throughout the United States, the majority of whom eat no flesh food at all.