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

if chilly, she bundles up in more wrappings, and
provides the same for the children, thinking that
they also must be chilly. The doors and windows
are closed, and the temperature of the room
increased. The children are frequently puny and
weakly, and do not possess a high degree of moral
worth. Husband and children are thus shut up for
the winter, slaves to the notions of a woman
controlled by imagination, and sometimes having a
set will. The members of such a family are daily
martyrs. They are sacrificing health to the caprice
of an imaginative, complaining, murmuring
woman. They are deprived, in a great measure, of
air, which will invigorate them and give them
energy and vitality.
Those who do not use their limbs every day
will realize a weakness when they do attempt to
exercise. The veins and muscles are not in a
condition to perform their work and keep all the
living machinery in healthful action, each organ in
the system doing its part. The limbs will strengthen
with use. Moderate exercise every day will impart
strength to the muscles, which without exercise
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