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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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from the books treating more particularly <strong>on</strong><br />

religious subjects. Teach them the importance of<br />

caring for the body—the house they live in. Form a<br />

home reading circle, in which every member of the<br />

family shall lay aside the busy cares of the day and<br />

unite in study. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters,<br />

take up this work heartily, and see if the home<br />

church will not be greatly improved.<br />

Especially will the youth who have been<br />

accustomed to reading novels and cheap<br />

storybooks receive benefit by joining in the<br />

evening family study. Young men and young<br />

women, read the literature that will give you true<br />

knowledge, and that will be a help to the entire<br />

family. Say firmly: “I will not spend precious<br />

moments in reading that which will be of no profit<br />

to me, and which <strong>on</strong>ly unfits me to be of service to<br />

others. I will devote my time and my thoughts to<br />

acquiring a fitness for God’s service. I will close<br />

my eyes to frivolous and sinful things. My ears are<br />

the Lord’s, and I will not listen to the subtle<br />

reas<strong>on</strong>ing of the enemy. My voice shall not in any<br />

way be subject to a will that is not under the<br />

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