Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

ought many of them into their present condition
of feebleness. They are told that they have
expended too much vitality in hard labor, when, in
nine cases out of ten, the labor they performed was
the only redeeming thing in their lives and was the
means of saving them from utter ruin. While their
minds were thus engaged they could not have as
favorable an opportunity to debase their bodies and
to complete the work of destroying themselves. To
have all such persons cease to labor with brain and
muscle is to give them ample opportunity to be
taken captive by the temptations of Satan.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:94, 95 (1876).
Open the Windows of the Soul
The burden of sin, with its unrest and
unsatisfied desires, lies at the very foundation of a
large share of the maladies the sinner suffers.
Christ is the Mighty Healer of the sin-sick soul.
These poor, afflicted ones need to have a clearer
knowledge of Him whom to know aright is life
eternal. They need to be patiently and kindly yet
earnestly taught how to throw open the windows of
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