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

The nervous system has borrowed power from
its future resources for present use, and all this
temporary invigoration is followed by a
corresponding depression. The suddenness of the
relief obtained from tea and coffee is an evidence
that what seems to be strength is only nervous
excitement, and consequently must be an injury to
the system.—Christian Temperance and Bible
Hygiene, 31, 1890. (Child Guidance, 403.)
Stern Coldness in Marriage a Cause of
Depression.—When you married your wife, she
loved you. She was extremely sensitive, yet with
painstaking on your part, and fortitude on hers, her
health need not have been what it is. But your stern
coldness made you like an iceberg, freezing up the
channel of love and affection. Your censure and
faultfinding has been like desolating hail to a
sensitive plant. It has chilled and nearly destroyed
the life of the plant. Your love of the world is
eating out the good traits of your character.
Your wife is of a different turn and more
generous. But when she has, even in small matters,
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