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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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earnestly and diligently should the parents work to<br />

do their duty, in faith and hope, to their unfortunate<br />

offspring!<br />

Parents should make it their first business to<br />

understand the laws of life and health, that nothing<br />

shall be d<strong>on</strong>e by them in the preparati<strong>on</strong> of food, or<br />

through any other habits, which will develop<br />

wr<strong>on</strong>g tendencies in their children. How carefully<br />

should mothers study to prepare their tables with<br />

the most simple, healthful food, that the digestive<br />

organs may not be weakened, the nervous forces<br />

unbalanced, and the instructi<strong>on</strong> which they should<br />

give their children counteracted, by the food placed<br />

before them. This food either weakens or<br />

strengthens the organs of the stomach, and has<br />

much to do in c<strong>on</strong>trolling the physical and moral<br />

health of the children. ... Those who indulge the<br />

appetite of their children, and do not c<strong>on</strong>trol their<br />

passi<strong>on</strong>s, will see the terrible mistake they have<br />

made in the tobacco-loving, liquor-drinking slave,<br />

whose senses are benumbed and whose lips utter<br />

falsehoods and profanity.<br />

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