Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene - Ellen G. White

overtaxation, we shall sometime be losers. Our
usefulness will be lessened, if not our life itself
destroyed.
As a rule, the labor of the day should not be
prolonged into the evening. If all the hours of the
day are well improved, the work extended into the
evening is so much extra, and the overtaxed system
will suffer from the burden imposed upon it. I have
been shown that those who do this, often lose much
more than they gain, for their energies are
exhausted, and they labor on nervous excitement.
They may not realize any immediate injury, but
they are surely undermining their constitution.
Let parents devote the evenings to their
families. Lay off care and perplexity with the
labors of the day. The husband and father would
gain much if he would make it a rule not to mar the
happiness of his family by bringing his business
troubles home to fret and worry over. He may need
the council of his wife in difficult matters, and they
may both obtain relief in their perplexities by
unitedly seeking wisdom of God; but to keep the
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