must be wrong to forbid the use of meat made for man's use."

"If it was wrong, God would not have forbidden the Jews the use of meat
that we now use as a gift of God."

"That was in the old law. You cannot find any such prohibition in the
gospel."

"I can. In the Acts of the Apostles, xv. 29, the use of blood and
strangled meat is forbidden. Besides, our Lord fasted forty days from
the use of all the good gifts of God in the shape of food. The
Israelites fasted from flesh in the desert, and were terribly punished
for asking for it; over seventy thousand of them having died as a
punishment for their carnal desires."

"Paul, I fear the Lord has deserted thee," said this ignorant hypocrite,
when he saw himself refuted by this young boy. "Don't we read from the
mouth of truth itself, that 'what entereth into the mouth defileth
not'?"

"I think I heard the teetotal lecturer on the road there say that a
glass of brandy defiled a man; and I am sure a quart or two of it would
cause a man to sin, and thus defile him. And as the apple in the garden
defiled Eve, not by its nature, but by reason of the prohibition of God,
so the meat on Friday does not defile of itself, but by reason of the
prohibition of the church."

"You should not obey the church, Paul, in all these things. It is
slavery the most vile, so it is."