Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Many of them have suffered from severe
mental taxation, unrelieved by physical exercise.
The result is a deterioration of their powers and a
tendency to shirk responsibility. What they need is
more active labor. This is not alone confined to
those whose heads are white with the frost of time,
but men young in years have fallen into the same
state and have become mentally feeble. They have
a list of set discourses; but if they get beyond the
boundaries of these, they lose their soundings.
The old-fashioned pastor, who traveled on
horseback, and spent much time in visiting his
flock, enjoyed much better health, notwithstanding
his hardships and exposures, than our ministers of
today, who avoid all physical exertion as far as
possible and confine themselves to their books.
Ministers of age and experience should feel it
their duty, as God’s hired servants, to go forward,
progressing every day, continually becoming more
efficient in their work and constantly gathering
fresh matter to set before the people. Each effort to
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