Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene - Ellen G. White

little necessity for temperance crusades. Firmness
of character, moral control, would prevail, and in
the strength of Jesus the temptations of these last
days would be resisted.
It is a most difficult matter to unlearn the habits
which have been indulged through life. The demon
of intemperance is of giant strength, and is not
easily conquered. But let parents begin the crusade
against it at their own firesides, in their own
families, in the principles they teach their children
from their very infancy, and then they may hope
for success. It will pay you, mothers, to use the
precious hours which are given you by God in
forming the character of your children, and in
teaching them to adhere strictly to the principles of
temperance in eating and drinking.
A sacred trust is committed to parents, to guard
the physical and moral constitution of their
children, so that the nervous system may be well
balanced, and the soul not endangered. Fathers and
mothers should understand the laws of life, that
they may not, through ignorance, allow wrong
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