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

the faculties should be well developed. Care should be given to each, for each has a
bearing upon the others, and all must be exercised in order that the mind be properly
balanced. {2MCP 375.1}
If one or two organs are cultivated and kept in continual use because it is the choice
of your children to put the strength of the mind in one direction to the neglect of other
mental powers, they will come to maturity with unbalanced minds and inharmonious
characters. They will be apt and strong in one direction but greatly deficient in other
directions just as important. They will not be competent men and women. Their
deficiencies will be marked and will mar the entire character.--3T 26 (1872). {2MCP
375.2}
When the minds of ministers, schoolteachers, and students are continually excited
by study, and the body is allowed to be inactive, the nerves of emotion are taxed while
the nerves of motion are inactive. The wear being all upon the mental organs, they
become overworked and enfeebled, while the muscles lose their vigor for want of
employment. There is no inclination to exercise the muscles by engaging in physical
labor, because exertion seems to be irksome.--3T 490 (1875). {2MCP 375.3}
Caution Concerning Overwork.--Remember that man must preserve his
God-given talent of intelligence by keeping the physical machinery in harmonious
action. Daily physical exercise is necessary to the enjoyment of health. It is not work but
overwork, without periods of rest, that breaks people down, endangering the life-forces.
Those who overwork soon reach the place where they work in a hopeless way. {2MCP
375.4}
The work done to the Lord is done in cheerfulness and with courage. God wants us
to bring spirit and life and
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hopefulness into our work. Brain workers should give due attention to every part of the
human machinery, equalizing the taxation. Physical and mental effort, wisely combined,
will keep the whole man in a condition that makes him acceptable to God. . . . {2MCP
375.5}
Bring into the day's work hopefulness, courage, and amiability. Do not overwork.
Better far leave undone some of the things planned for the day's work than to undo
oneself and become overtaxed, losing the courage necessary for the performance of
the tasks of the next day. Do not today violate the laws of nature, lest you lose your
strength for the day to follow.--Lt 102, 1903. {2MCP 376.1}
Counsel to One Who Indulged in Exaggerated Language.--From the light which
God has given me, I know that spiritual deformity is being developed in you. In the
place of giving a faultless exhibition of right principles and correct habits, you are
gathering to yourselves sentiments and principles which will exclude you and all who
partake of the same spirit from the heavenly courts. Your mind is becoming deformed
by the way in which you treat it. I entreat of you to change decidedly about. Check all
exaggerated language, for it destroys the harmony of the mind. {2MCP 376.2}