Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

mother and the children have made repeated drafts
upon their fund of health and strength, thinking that
such an extravagant expenditure would never
exhaust their capital, until they are surprised at last
to find their vigor of life exhausted. They have
nothing left to draw upon in case of emergency.
The sweetness and happiness of life are embittered
by racking pains and sleepless nights. Both
physical and mental vigor are gone. The husband
and father who, for the sake of gain, made the
unwise arrangement of his business, it may be with
the full sanction of the wife and mother, may, as
the result, bury the mother and one or more of the
children. Health and life were sacrificed for the
love of money. (Read 1 Timothy 6:10.)—
Testimonies for the Church 1:478 (1865).
Temperance in Labor
[Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 64-
66 (1890).] Intemperance in eating and drinking,
intemperance in labor, intemperance in almost
everything, exists on every hand. Those who make
great exertions to accomplish just so much work in
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