Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

copy. By precept as well as example, she is to store
their minds with useful knowledge and lead them
to self-sacrificing labor for the good of others. The
great stimulus to the toiling, burdened mother
should be that every child who is trained aright and
who has the inward adorning, the ornament of a
meek and quiet spirit, will have a fitness for heaven
and will shine in the courts of the Lord....
If children and youth were trained and educated
to habits of self-denial and self-control, if they
were taught that they eat to live instead of living to
eat, there would be less disease and less moral
corruption. There would be little necessity for
temperance crusades, ... if in the youth, who form
and fashion society, right principles in regard to
temperance could be implanted. They would then
have moral worth and moral integrity to resist, in
the strength of Jesus, the pollutions of these last
days.
Temperance in the Home
It is a most difficult matter to unlearn the habits
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