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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
Exercise in the open air for those whose employment has been
within doors and sedentary will be beneficial to health. All who can
should feel it a duty to pursue this course. Nothing will be lost, but
much gained. They can return to their occupations with new life and
new courage to engage in their labor with zeal, and they are better
prepared to resist disease.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:514, 515
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Many allow the youth to attend parties of pleasure, thinking that
amusement is essential for health and happiness; but what dangers
are in this path! The more the desire for pleasure is gratified, the
more it is cultivated and the stronger it becomes. The life experience
is largely made up of self-gratification in amusement. God bids us
beware. “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”
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