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

protests against the abuses she is suffering, by
aches and pains in the system. If even then the
sufferers would only commence the work right,
and would resort to the simple means they have
neglected—the use of water and proper diet—
nature would have just the help she requires and
which she ought to have had long before. If this
course is pursued, the patient will generally recover
without being debilitated.—Healthful Living, 61,
1865 (Part 3). (Selected Messages 2:451.)
Intemperance Causes Suffering.—Many are
so devoted to intemperance that they will not
change their course of indulging in gluttony under
any considerations. They would sooner sacrifice
health and die prematurely than to restrain their
intemperate appetite. And there are many who are
ignorant of the relation their eating and drinking
has to health. Could such be enlightened, they
might have moral courage to deny the appetite and
eat more sparingly and of that food alone which
was healthful, and by their own course of action
save themselves a great amount of suffering.—4SG
130, 1864. (Counsels on Diet and Foods, 158.)
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