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

never read it before. Engage in home duties, and
lighten the cares of your overburdened,
overworked parents. You may not be able to do a
great amount at first, but every day increase the
task you set yourself. This is the surest remedy for
a diseased mind and an abused body.
If you possess earnestness and steadiness of
purpose, your mind will come back, in a degree, to
dwelling upon more healthful, pure subjects. Selfindulgence
has degenerated by degrees into such a
wantonness of will as knows not how to please
itself. Instead of regulating your actions by reason
and principle, you suffer yourself to be guided by
every slight and momentary impulse. This makes
you appear variable and in constant. It is vain for
others to seek to please you, for you could not
please yourself, even if all your wishes were
indulged. You are a capricious child and have
become sick of yourself through very selfishness.
This wretched state is the result of unwise
sympathy and flattery. You have had a very good
mind, but it has become unbalanced by being
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