Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

which have been indulged through life and have
educated the appetite. The demon of intemperance
is not easily conquered. It is of giant strength and
hard to overcome. But let parents begin a crusade
against intemperance at their own firesides, in their
own families, in the principles they teach their
children to follow from their very infancy, and they
may hope for success. It will pay you, mothers, to
use the precious hours which are given you of God
in forming, developing, and training the characters
of your children, and in teaching them to strictly
adhere to the principles of temperance in eating
and drinking.
Parents may have transmitted to their children
tendencies to appetite and passion, which will
make more difficult the work of educating and
training these children to be strictly temperate and
to have pure and virtuous habits. If the appetite for
unhealthy food and for stimulants and narcotics has
been transmitted to them as a legacy from their
parents, what a fearfully solemn responsibility rests
upon the parents to counteract the evil tendencies
which they have given to their children! How
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