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

The body needs careful culture, that it may be kept in a healthy condition. So the
mind needs to be strictly disciplined, lest it shall be unduly developed in some things
and insufficiently developed in others. Because these susceptible organs are not in
your sight, where you can see the harm that you are doing to your intellectual powers
and how much they need regulating, you are not conscious of the harm you are doing
them. You entertain unsound theories, and your mind is made to serve these theories.
{2MCP 376.3}
The way in which you are mismanaging your mental machinery is wearing it out. But
you cannot see what harm this is doing. Sooner or later your friends with you will see
the unfavorable development of your
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thoughts and actions. Your stomach is beginning to testify to the action of the mind. A
symmetrical and well-disciplined mind would change for the better the powers of
digestion.--Lt 29, 1897. {2MCP 376.4}
Harmony Uses Complementary Effort (counsel to a husband).--We cannot all
have the same minds or cherish the same ideas; but one is to be a benefit and blessing
to the other, that where one lacks, another may supply what is requisite. You have
certain deficiencies of character and natural biases that render it profitable for you to be
brought in contact with a mind differently organized, in order to properly balance your
own. Instead of superintending so exclusively, you should consult with your wife and
arrive at joint decisions. You do not encourage independent effort on the part of your
family; but if your specific directions are not scrupulously carried out, you too frequently
find fault with the delinquents.--4T 128 (1876). {2MCP 377.1}
Lower Propensities to Be Under Control.--"We are laborers together with God" (1
Corinthians 3:9). Man is to work out his own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is
God that worketh in him both to will and to do of His good pleasure. God gives man
physical and mental powers. None are needless. Not one is to be misused or abused.
The lower propensities are to be kept under control of the higher powers.--Lt 139, 1898.
{2MCP 377.2}
Health of the Body and Mind.--The life of Daniel is an inspired illustration of what
constitutes a sanctified character. It presents a lesson for all, and especially for the
young. A strict compliance with the requirements of God is beneficial to the health of
body and mind. {2MCP 377.3}
In order to reach the highest standard of moral and intellectual attainments, it is
necessary to seek wisdom and strength from God and to observe strict temperance in
all the habits of life. In the experience of Daniel and
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his companions we have an instance of the triumph of principle over temptation to