Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

women should reject. Imagination should not be
allowed to control the wants of the system. Those
who allow the taste to rule, will suffer the penalty
of transgressing the laws of their being. And the
matter does not end here; their innocent offspring
also will be sufferers....
Pleasant Surroundings Essential
Great care should be exercised to have the
surroundings of the mother pleasant and happy.
The husband and father is under special
responsibility to do all in his power to lighten the
burden of the wife and mother. He should bear, as
much as possible, the burden of her condition. He
should be affable, courteous, kind, and tender, and
especially attentive to all her wants.
<strong>Counsels</strong> Regarding Motherhood
[The Review and Herald, July 25, 1899.] Every
woman about to become a mother whatever may be
her surroundings, should encourage constantly a
happy, contented disposition, knowing that for all
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