Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

in a great degree, as well as yourselves.
If you suffer from your intemperance in eating
or drinking, we that are around you or associated
with you are also affected by your infirmities. We
have to suffer on account of your wrong course. If
it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind
or body, we feel it when in your society and are
affected by it. If, instead of having a buoyancy of
spirit, you are gloomy, you cast a shadow upon the
spirits of all around you. If we are sad and
depressed and in trouble, you could, if in a right
condition of health, have a clear brain to show us
the way out, and speak a comforting word to us.
But if your brain is so benumbed by your wrong
course of living that you cannot give us the right
counsel, do we not meet with a loss? Does not your
influence seriously affect us? We may have a good
degree of confidence in our own judgment, yet we
want to have counselors; for “in the multitude of
counselors there is safety.” Proverbs 11:14.
We desire that our course should look
consistent to those we love, and we wish to seek
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