Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

otherwise. I plead with you to take up life's burdens
instead of shunning them. Help your husband by
helping yourself. The ideas which you both hold of
the dignity to be maintained by the minister are not
in accordance with the example of our Lord. The
minister of Christ should possess sobriety,
meekness, love, long-suffering, forbearance, pity,
and courtesy. He should be circumspect, elevated
in thought and conversation, and of blameless
deportment. This is gospel dignity. But if a
minister comes to a family where he can wait on
himself, he should do so by all means; and he
should by his example encourage industry by
engaging in physical labor when he has not a
multiplicity of other duties and burdens. He will
not detract from his dignity, and will better relate
himself to health and life, by engaging in useful
labor. The circulation of the blood will be better
equalized. Physical labor, a diversion from mental,
will draw the blood from the brain. It is essential
for your husband to have more physical labor in
order to relieve the brain. Digestion will be
promoted by physical exercise. If he would spend a
part of every day in physical exercise, when not
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