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

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Healing, 321 (1905).<br />

Intemperate Persons Cannot Be Patient.—<br />

There are ample reasons why there are so many<br />

nervous women in the world, complaining of the<br />

dyspepsia, with its train of evils. The cause has<br />

been followed by the effect. It is impossible for<br />

intemperate persons to be patient. They must first<br />

reform bad habits, learn to live healthfully, <strong>and</strong><br />

then it will not be difficult for them to be patient.<br />

Many do not seem to underst<strong>and</strong> the relation<br />

the mind sustains to the body. If the system is<br />

deranged by improper food, the brain <strong>and</strong> nerves<br />

are affected, <strong>and</strong> slight things annoy those who are<br />

thus afflicted. Little difficulties are to them<br />

troubles mountain high. Persons thus situated are<br />

unfitted to properly train their children. Their life<br />

will be marked with extremes, sometimes very<br />

indulgent, at other times severe, censuring for<br />

trifles which deserved no notice.—Healthful<br />

Living, 41, 1865 (Part 2). (Selected Messages<br />

2:434.)<br />

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