Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

the heat you need. If you positively cannot engage
in active exercise, warm yourselves by the fire; but
as soon as you are warm, lay off your extra
clothing and remove from the fire. If those who
can, would engage in some active employment to
take the mind from themselves, they would
generally forget that they were chilly, and would
not receive harm. You should lower the
temperature of your room as soon as you have
regained your natural warmth. For invalids who
have feeble lungs, nothing can be worse than an
overheated atmosphere.
The Original Plan
It was not God’s purpose that His people
should be crowded into cities, huddled together in
terraces and tenements. In the beginning He placed
our first parents in a garden, amidst the beautiful
sights and attractive sounds of nature, and these
sights and sounds He desires men to rejoice in
today. The more nearly we come into harmony
with God’s original plan, the more favorable will
be our position for the recovery and the
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