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Sensuality in the Young
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corruption that is in the world through lust. It is impossible for
those who indulge the appetite to attain to Christian perfection. You
cannot arouse the moral sensibilities of your children while you are
not careful in the selection of their food. The tables that parents
usually prepare for their children are a snare to them. Their diet is
not simple, and is not prepared in a healthful manner. The food is
frequently rich and fever-producing, having a tendency to irritate
and excite the tender coats of the stomach. The animal propensities
are strengthened and bear sway, while the moral and intellectual
powers are weakened and become servants to the baser passions.
You should study to prepare a simple yet nutritious diet. Flesh meats,
and rich cakes and pies prepared with spices of any kind, are not the
most healthful and nourishing diet. Eggs should not be placed upon
your table. [
See Appendix.
] They are an injury to your children.
Fruits and grains, prepared in the most simple form, are the most
healthful, and will impart the greatest amount of nourishment to the
body, and, at the same time, not impair the intellect.
Regularity in eating is very important for health of body and
serenity of mind. Your children should eat only at the regular meal-
time. They should not be allowed to digress from this established
rule. When you, Sister E, absent yourself from home, you can-
not control these important matters. Already your eldest son has
enervated his entire system and laid the foundation for permanent
disease. Your second child is fast following in his steps, and not one
of your children is safe from this evil.
You may be unable to obtain the truth from your children in
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regard to their habits. Those who practice secret vice will lie and de-
ceive. Your children may deceive you, for you are not in a condition
where you can know if they attempt to lead you astray. You have so
long been blinded by the enemy that you have scarcely a ray of light
to discern darkness. There is a great, a solemn, and an important
work for you to do at once, to set your own hearts and house in
order. Your only safe course is to take right hold of this work. Do
not deceive yourselves into the belief that, after all, this matter is
placed before you in an exaggerated light. I have not colored the
picture. I have stated facts which will bear the test of the judgment.
Awake! awake! I beseech you, before it shall be too late for wrongs
to be righted, and you and your children perish in the general ruin.