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

Children who are clothed according to fashion
cannot endure exposure in the open air unless the
weather is mild. Therefore parents and children
remain in ill-ventilated rooms, fearing the
atmosphere out of doors; and well they may, with
their fashionable style of clothing. If they would
clothe themselves sensibly, and have moral
courage to take their position on the side of right,
they would not endanger health by going out
summer and winter, and exercising freely in the
open air. But if left undisturbed to their own
course, many would soon complete the sacrifice of
their own lives and those of their children. And
those who are compelled to have the care of them
become sufferers. The invalid who is controlled by
imagination is to be dreaded. All who live in the
house with her become enfeebled. The husband
loses his nervous energy, and becomes diseased
because, a considerable part of the time, he is
robbed by his wife of the vital air of heaven. But
the poor children, who think that mother knows
best what is right, are the greatest sufferers. The
mother's wrong course has enfeebled herself, and,
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