Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

On such occasions parents and children should feel free from care, labor, andperplexity. Parents should become children with their children, making everythingas pleasant for them as possible. Let the whole day be given to recreation. Exercise inthe open air for those whose employment has been withindoors and sedentary will bebeneficial to health. All who can, should feel it a duty to pursue this course. Nothingwill be lost, but much gained. They can return to their occupations with new life andnew courage to engage in their labor with zeal, and they are better prepared to resistdisease.I saw that but few realize the constant, wearing labor of those who are bearingthe responsibilities of the work in the office. They are confined withindoors day afterday and week after week, while a constant strain upon the mental powers is surelyundermining their constitutions and lessening their hold on life. These brethren are indanger of breaking suddenly. They are not immortal, and without a change they mustwear out and be lost to the work.We have precious gifts in Brethren A, B, and C. We cannot afford to have themruin their health through close confinement and incessant toil. Where can we find menwith their experience to supply their places? Two of these brethren have been fourteenyears connected with the work in the office, laboring earnestly, conscientiously, andunselfishly for the advancement of the cause of God. They have had scarcely anyvariation except what fevers and other sickness have given them. They should have achange frequently, should often devote a day wholly to recreation with their families,who are almost entirely deprived of their society. All may not be able to leave the workat the same time; but they should so arrange their work that one or two may go, leavingothers to supply their places, and then let these in their turn have the same opportunity.I saw that these brethren, A, B, and C, should as a religious515