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and coffee produce an immediate effect. Under the influence of these
poisons the nervous system is excited; and in some cases, for the time
being, the intellect seems to be invigorated, the imagination more
vivid. Because these stimulants produce such agreeable results, many
conclude that they really need them; but there is always a reaction.
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The nervous system has borrowed power from its future resources
for present use, and all this temporary invigoration is followed by
a corresponding depression. The suddenness of the relief obtained
from tea and coffee is an evidence that what seems to be strength is
only nervous excitement, and consequently must be an injury to the
system.—
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 31, 1890
. (
Child
Guidance, 403
.)
Stern Coldness in Marriage a Cause of Depression—When you
married your wife, she loved you. She was extremely sensitive, yet
with painstaking on your part, and fortitude on hers, her health need
not have been what it is. But your stern coldness made you like an
iceberg, freezing up the channel of love and affection. Your censure
and faultfinding has been like desolating hail to a sensitive plant. It
has chilled and nearly destroyed the life of the plant. Your love of the
world is eating out the good traits of your character.
Your wife is of a different turn and more generous. But when she
has, even in small matters, exercised her generous instincts, you have
felt a drawback in your feelings and have censured her. You indulge a
close and grudging spirit. You make your wife feel that she is a tax,
a burden, and that she has no right to exercise her generosity at your
expense. All these things are of such a discouraging nature that she
feels hopeless and helpless and has not stamina to bear up against it,
but bends to the force of the blast. Her disease is pain of the nerves.
Were her married life agreeable, she would possess a good degree of
health. But all through your married life the demon has been a guest
in your family to exult over your misery.—
Testimonies for the Church
1:696
(1868).
Depression Sometimes Result of Sexual Excess—Very many
families are living in a most unhappy state because the husband and
father allows the animal in his nature to predominate over the intellec-
tual and moral. The result is that a sense of languor and depression is
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frequently felt, but the cause is seldom divined as being the result of
their own improper course of action. We are under solemn obligations