The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-05-10

the representatives of our race,
Adam and Eve, consisted exclu-
sively of the various grains, fruits
and nuts; and without doubt these
contain every element of nutrition
required by the human body, and
besides this there is no element Of
disease or death in them.
II Adam and his posterity had
conformed to the instructions given
by the Lord in regard to diet in
Gen. l 30, and Gen. 2:16, II. a dis.
ease and death would never have
entered this world; the instructions
were disregarded, and the human
family for nearly six thousand
years has paid but little attention
to what the Lord has said in Gen.
1:29.
We have departed so far from
the Lords Instructions to what
Is good and fit to eat, and substitu-
ted or added so many things that
are not fit to eat, and which the
Lord has told us not to eat, that 1t
can be truthfully said all over the
world today, as was said by the
sons of the prophets to Elisha of
old: 30 thou man of God there is
death in the pot" End Kings 4:40.
1t was not designed of God from
the beginning that the flesh of ami
mails should form any part of the
diet of man; this is proven by the
revelation of his will upon the sub
ject of diet given in Gen. :29 and
quoted above, The observance of
these requirements of God in re-
gard to diet were frustrated or him
dered for short time Immediately
after the flood.
The earth was broken up by the
flood and covered with water for
nearly year, and the grains, fruits,
nuts and vegetables were destroyed
so that when Noah and his family
came out of the ark, it became
necessary for God to supply them
with a temporary diet until the
fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables
should grow again upon the earth.
1t was then that the Lord said
"Every moving thing llveth shall be
meat (food) for you: even as the
green herb have 1 given you all
things. But flesh with the life
thereof, which is the blood thereof,
shall ye not eat. And surely your
blood of your lives will 1 require;
at the hand of every beast will
require it," Gen. 8: 3-5.
Here we learn that the life is in
the blood, and that the blood of our
lives is required for the lives of the
animals whose flesh we eat. The
principle revealed to Noah in the
words quoted above is, that there
is an element of disease and death
in flesh blood which shortens the
lives Of those who eat it.
I The average length of mans life
at the time permission was given
to eat flesh food was nearly 9
thousand years. He has been loos
ing his hold upon life all along the
line Of 1000 years or more by this
shortening process oflyi Gliding hi:
life for the lives of the animals
birds and fishes eaten until he Ii
nearly bankrupt of life, dying at al
average age of about 33 years.
We should just stop our fest
eating and return to the healthful
life-giving diet of grains, fruits
vegetables and nuts which our low
ing Father has provided so bounti
fully and told us to eat. Having
full faith in the truthfulness O
what the Lord has said about th'
swine, that at is unclean,' and no
flt to eat, the writer abandoned th'
use of pork 20 years ago; some will
be inclined to think that the dec
laration, at is unclean" was in
tended only for the jews, they arr
mistaken. The swine of today /
just as filthy and unclean as it wa
1000 years ago; it is scavinger
filth is Its natural element, and /
feeds upon every detestable thing
! The Lord loves the gentiles to
day just as we'll as no ever lovet
the jews, and is Just as desirou
that they should have good clear
food, good health and long life a
he was desirous that the jew
should have those blessings.
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