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

exercise, if possible, to regain the heat you need. If
you positively cannot engage in active exercise,
warm yourselves by the fire; but as soon as you are
warm, lay off your extra clothing and remove from
the fire. If those who can, would engage in some
active employment to take the mind from
themselves, they would generally forget that they
were chilly and would not receive harm. You
should lower the temperature of your room as soon
as you have regained your natural warmth. For
invalids who have feeble lungs, nothing can be
worse than an overheated atmosphere.
Invalids too often deprive themselves of
sunlight. This is one of nature's most healing
agents. It is a very simple, therefore not a
fashionable remedy, to enjoy the rays of God's
sunlight and beautify our homes with its presence.
Fashion takes the greatest care to exclude the light
of the sun from parlors and sleeping rooms by
dropping curtains and closing shutters, as though
its rays were ruinous to life and health. It is not
God who has brought upon us the many woes to
which mortals are heirs. Our own folly has led us
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