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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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of dissatisfacti<strong>on</strong> and c<strong>on</strong>tenti<strong>on</strong>, and home is the<br />

most miserable place in the world. The children<br />

find more pleasure am<strong>on</strong>g strangers, in reckless<br />

company, or in the streets, than at home. All this<br />

might be avoided if temperance in all things were<br />

practiced, and patience cultivated. Self-c<strong>on</strong>trol <strong>on</strong><br />

the part of all the members of the family will make<br />

home almost a paradise. Make your rooms as<br />

cheerful as possible. Let the children find home the<br />

most attractive place <strong>on</strong> earth. Throw about them<br />

such influences that they will not seek for street<br />

compani<strong>on</strong>s, nor think of the haunts of vice except<br />

with horror. If the home life is what it should be,<br />

the habits formed there will be a str<strong>on</strong>g defense<br />

against the assaults of temptati<strong>on</strong> when the young<br />

shall leave the shelter of home for the world.<br />

Order and Cleanliness<br />

[The Review and Herald, June 10, 1902.] Order<br />

is heaven’s first law, and the Lord desires His<br />

people to give in their homes a representati<strong>on</strong> of<br />

the order and harm<strong>on</strong>y that pervade the heavenly<br />

courts. Truth never places her delicate feet in a<br />

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