Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Service is service, and one kind of work is as
essential as the other. To every man is given his
work. There is stern, taxing labor to be performed,
labor involving disagreeable taxation and requiring
skill and tact. In the work of God, the physical as
well as the mental powers are drawn upon, and
both are essential. One is as necessary as the other.
Should we attempt to draw a line between mental
and physical work, we would place ourselves in
very difficult positions.
The experiment of giving men high wages has
been tried in the publishing institutions. Some men
have grasped high wages, while others, doing work
just as severe and taxing, have had barely enough
to sustain their families. Yet their taxation was just
as great, and often men have been overworked and
overwearied, while others, bearing not half the
burdens, received double the wages. The Lord sees
all these things, and He will surely call men to
account; for He is a God of justice and equity.
Those who have a knowledge of the truth for
this time should be pure and clean and noble in all
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