Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

walked as well and sat as erect as many others. {2MCP 398.2}
The condition of your mind leads to indolence and to a dread of exercise, when this
exercise would prove one of the greatest means of your recovery. You will never
recover unless you lay aside this listless, dreamy condition of mind and arouse yourself
to do, to work while the day lasts. Do, as well as imagine and plan. Turn your mind
away from romantic projects. You mingle with your religion a romantic, lovesick
sentimentalism, which does not elevate, but only lowers. It is not you alone who is
affected; others are injured by your example and influence.--2T 248, 249 (1869). {2MCP
398.3}
Health Sacrificed to Feelings (counsel to a woman of strong will).--Dear _____,
you have a diseased imagination; and you dishonor God by allowing your feelings to
have complete control of your reason and judgment. You have a determined will, which
causes the mind to react upon the body, unbalancing the circulation and producing
congestion in certain organs; and you are sacrificing health to your feelings.--5T 310
(1873).
399 {2MCP 398.4}
Mental Illness Produced by Unsanctified Tongues (comments on the death of
the wife of an executive).-- Sister _____ was so weighted down with sorrow that she
lost her reason. I ask, Who, in the day of judgment, will be held responsible for putting
out the light of that mind that should be shining today? Who will be accountable in the
day of God for the work that caused the distress which brought on this sickness? She
suffered for months, and the husband suffered with her. And now the poor woman has
gone, leaving two motherless children. All this because of the work done by
unsanctified tongues.--MS 54, 1904. {2MCP 399.1}
Overtaxed Mind Impairs Health.--Brethren have invested means in patent rights
and other enterprises and have induced others to interest themselves, who could not
bear the perplexity and care of such business. Their anxious, overtaxed minds seriously
affect their already diseased bodies, and they then yield to despondency, which
increases to despair. They lose all confidence in themselves and think that God has
forsaken them, and they dare not believe that He will be merciful to them.--1T 304, 305
(1862). {2MCP 399.2}
Mental Activity Produces Health.--God wants His delegated servants to be good
preachers, and in order to do this they must be diligent students. . . . Studious habits, a
firm hold from above, will qualify them for their position as ministers of the gospel of
Christ. Mental activity will produce health, and this is better than a sluggish, disorderly,
untrained mind. Many become worthless as ministers after advancing in age. . . . Had
they worked the brain, they would have been fruitful in old age.--Lt 33, 1886. {2MCP
399.3}
Electrical Force of Brain Resists Disease.--The minds of thinking men labor too
hard. They frequently use their mental powers prodigally, while there is another class
whose highest aim in life is physical labor. The latter class