Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

gross iniquity abound everywhere. The temptation
to indulge taste and to gratify inclination has not
lessened with the increase of years, and youth in
general are governed by impulse and are slaves to
appetite. In the glutton, the tobacco devotee, the
winebibber, and the inebriate, we see the evil
results of defective education.
When we hear the sad lamentations of Christian
men and women over the terrible evils of
intemperance, the questions at once arise in the
mind: Who have educated the youth and given
them their stamp of character? Who have fostered
in them the appetites they have acquired? ...
I saw that Satan, through his temptations, is
instituting ever-changing fashions and attractive
parties and amusements, that mothers may be led to
devote their God-given probationary time to
frivolous matters, so that they can have but little
opportunity to educate and properly train their
children. Our youth want mothers who will teach
them from their very cradles to control passion, to
deny appetite, and to overcome selfishness. They
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