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

You have a diseased imagination. You have
thought yourself diseased, but this has been more
imaginary than real. You have been untrue to
yourself. You have conversed with young men, and
permitted a freedom in your presence which should
only be permitted in a brother. I was shown that
your influence at ——- was not what it might have
been. You permitted your mind to take a low level.
You could chat, and laugh, and talk cheap talk
unworthy of a Christian. Your deportment was not
as it should have been. You appeared like a person
without a backbone. You were half reclining upon
others, which is a wrong position for a lady to
occupy in the presence of others. If you had only
thought so, you could have walked as well, and sat
as erect, as many others. The condition of your
mind leads to indolence and to a dread of exercise,
when this exercise would prove one of the greatest
means of your recovery. You will never recover
unless you lay aside this listless, dreamy condition
of mind and arouse yourself to do, to work while
the day lasts. Do, as well as imagine and plan. Turn
your mind away from romantic projects. You
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