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Those who make great exertions to accomplish just so much work
in a given time, and continue to labor when their judgment tells them
they should rest, are never gainers. They are living on borrowed capital.
They are expending the vital force which they will need at a future time.
And when the energy they have so recklessly used is demanded, they
fail for want of it. The physical strength is gone, the mental powers
fail. They realize that they have met with a loss, but do not know what
it is. Their time of need has come, but their physical resources are
exhausted. Everyone who violates the laws of health must sometime
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be a sufferer to a greater or less degree. God has provided us with
constitutional force, which will be needed at different periods of our
lives. If we recklessly exhaust this force by continual overtaxation, we
shall sometime be the losers
In Dressing—In all respects the dress should be healthful. “Above
all things,” God desires us to “be in health”—health of body and of
soul. And we are to be workers together with Him for the health of
both soul and body. Both are promoted by healthful dress.
It should have the grace, the beauty, the appropriateness of natural
simplicity. Christ has warned us against the pride of life, but not
against its grace and natural beauty
In Eating—True temperance teaches us to dispense entirely with
everything hurtful, and to use judiciously that which is healthful. There
are few who realize as they should how much their habits of diet have
to do with their health, their character, their usefulness in this world,
and their eternal destiny. The appetite should ever be in subjection to
the moral and intellectual powers. The body should be servant to the
mind, and not the mind to the body
Those who eat and work intemperately and irrationally, talk and
act irrationally. It is not necessary to drink alcoholic liquors in order to
be intemperate. The sin of intemperate eating—eating too frequently,
too much, and of rich, unwholesome food—destroys the healthy action
of the digestive organs, affects the brain, and perverts the judgment,
preventing rational, calm, healthy thinking and acting
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15
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 153, 154
.
16
The Ministry of Healing, 288, 289
.
17
Temperance, 138
.
18
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 155
.