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

intellectual attainment, the laws that control our physical being must be heeded.--PP
601 (1890). {2MCP 380.1}
Mental Effort Affected by Physical Vigor.--We should seek to preserve the full
vigor of all our powers for the accomplishment of the work before us. Whatever detracts
from physical vigor weakens mental effort. Hence, every practice unfavorable to the
health of the body should be resolutely shunned. {2MCP 380.2}
Says the great apostle, "I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that
by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." We
cannot maintain consecration to God and yet injure our health by the willful indulgence
of a wrong habit. Self-denial is one of the conditions, not only of admission into the
service of Christ, but of continuance therein. Christ Himself declared, in unmistakable
language, the conditions of discipleship: "If any man will come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me."
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Yet, how many who call themselves Christians are unwilling to exercise self-denial,
even for Christ's sake. How often the love for some pernicious indulgence is stronger
than the desire for a sound mind in a sound body. Precious hours of probation are
spent, God-given means squandered, to please the eye or to gratify the appetite.
Custom holds thousands in bondage to the earthly and sensual. Many are willing
captives; they desire no better portion.--ST, June 1, 1882. {2MCP 381.1}
The Power of Discriminating Between Right and Wrong.--Anything that lessens
physical strength enfeebles the mind and makes it less capable of discriminating
between right or wrong.--COL 346 (1900). {2MCP 381.2}
Wrong Habits Yield Distorted Concepts.--Brother ____, you dwell upon yourself.
You view many things in a perverted light. You have suspicion of men, great distrust
and jealousy, and you surmise evil. You think everybody is determined to ruin you.
Many of these trials originate with you yourself. Many things are construed by you to be
premeditated to injure you, when this is farthest from the real truth. You do yourself the
greatest injury by your wrong course. {2MCP 381.3}
You are your greatest enemy. Your wrong habits unbalance the circulation of the
blood and determine [direct] the blood to the brain, and then you view everything in a
perverted light. You are quick and high-tempered, and you have not cultivated
self-control. Your will and your way seem right to you. But unless you see the defects in
your character and wash your robe and make it white in the blood of the Lamb, you will
surely fail of everlasting life. You love the theory of the truth, but you do not let it
sanctify your life. You do not carry out in your daily deportment the principles of the
truth you profess.--Lt 27, 1872. {2MCP 381.4}
Physical Habits Affect the Brain.--The brain is the citadel of the being. Wrong
physical habits affect the
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