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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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principles will be fitted to stand unsullied amid the<br />

moral polluti<strong>on</strong>s of this corrupt age. It is the duty<br />

of mothers to improve their golden opportunities to<br />

correctly educate their children for usefulness and<br />

duty....<br />

Where Intemperance Begins<br />

We repeat, intemperance commences at our<br />

tables. The appetite is indulged until its indulgence<br />

becomes sec<strong>on</strong>d nature. By the use of tea and<br />

coffee an appetite is formed for tobacco, and this<br />

encourages the appetite for liquors.<br />

Many parents, to avoid the task of patiently<br />

educating their children to habits of self-denial, and<br />

teaching them how to make a right use of all the<br />

blessings of God, indulge them in eating and<br />

drinking whenever they please. Appetite and<br />

selfish indulgence, unless positively restrained,<br />

grow with the growth and strengthen with the<br />

strength. When these children commence life for<br />

themselves and take their place in society, they are<br />

powerless to resist temptati<strong>on</strong>. Moral impurity and<br />

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