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

exercised her generous instincts, you have felt a
drawback in your feelings and have censured her.
You indulge a close and grudging spirit. You make
your wife feel that she is a tax, a burden, and that
she has no right to exercise her generosity at your
expense. All these things are of such a
discouraging nature that she feels hopeless and
helpless and has not stamina to bear up against it,
but bends to the force of the blast. Her disease is
pain of the nerves. Were her married life agreeable,
she would possess a good degree of health. But all
through your married life the demon has been a
guest in your family to exult over your misery.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:696 (1868).
Depression Sometimes Result of Sexual
Excess.—Very many families are living in a most
unhappy state because the husband and father
allows the animal in his nature to predominate over
the intellectual and moral. The result is that a sense
of languor and depression is frequently felt, but the
cause is seldom divined as being the result of their
own improper course of action. We are under
solemn obligations to God to keep the spirit pure
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