Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

Your grief was just as intense as all your other
troubles. You hugged the grief to your bosom, you
loved to dwell upon it, and you allowed your mind
and thoughts to be selfishly occupied with your
grief, and as a consequence your health suffered.
Then your daughter’s death was indeed a sad blow,
but others have passed through the same under
more trying circumstances. You allowed this
affliction to unman you; you dwelt upon it, you
talked of it, you aggravated your soul over a matter
you could not change or help. It was a sin to take
any of these afflictions as you have done.
I know whereof I speak. If the mind is
permitted to be clouded with grief, the food is not
digested and as a result the system is not well
nourished.—Lt 1, 1883.
Grief Causes Blood to Rush to Brain (a
personal experience).—While thus laboring in
speaking and writing, I received letters of a
discouraging character from Battle Creek. As I
read them I felt an inexpressible depression of
spirits, amounting to agony of mind, which seemed
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