A Solemn Appeal - Ellen G. White

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position. She has a responsibility before God which it is her duty to preserve. When the wife yields her body and mind to the control of her husband, being passive to his will in all things, sacrificing her conscience, her dignity, and even her identity, she loses the opportunity of exerting that mighty influence for good which she should possess to elevate her husband. She could soften his stern nature, and her sanctifying influence could be exerted in a manner to refine, purify, and lead him to strive earnestly to govern his passions, and be more spiritually minded, that they might be partakers together of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. The power of influence can be great to lead the mind to high and noble themes, above the low, sensual indulgences which the heart unrenewed by grace naturally seeks. If the wife feels that she must, in order to please her husband, come down to his standard, when animal passion is the principal basis of his love, controlling his actions, she displeases God; for she fails to exert a sanctifying influence upon her husband. If she feels 136
that she must submit to the animal passions of her husband without a word of remonstrance, she does not understand her duty to him, nor to her God. Sexual excess will effectually destroy a love for devotional exercises, will take from the brain the substance needed to nourish the system, and will most effectually exhaust the vitality. No woman should aid her husband in this work of selfdestruction. She will not do it if she is enlightened, and truly loves her husband. The more the animal passions are indulged and exercised, the stronger do they become, and the more violent will be their clamors for indulgence. Let God-fearing men and women awake to their duty. Many professing Christianity are suffering with paralysis of nerve and brain because of their intemperance in this direction. Rottenness is in the bones and marrow of many who are regarded as good men, who pray and weep, and who stand in high places, but whose polluted carcasses will never pass the portals of the heavenly city. Oh! that I could make all understand their obligations to God to preserve the mental and physical organism 137
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seen the beauty of health disappear
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estraint? Have you not been alarmed
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will not be restrained, will be in
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position in this life? Will they sa
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children to their own home, or grat
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anxiously consults a physician, who
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indulgence in this sin will destroy
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The help of the daughters will ofte
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from active labor, they, by so doin
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heavier task for the remaining to p
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My sisters, be entreated to spend l
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continue the course they have begun
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has not left them to perish in thei
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like a fictitious story book, but s
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the mental faculties; yet the work
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habits is to leave them forever, if
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everlasting kingdom. It is the spec
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upon the serpent in Eden, because h
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perseveringly. They make too little
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Now is the time of preparation. Non
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influence upon the brain. Thus they
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marriage relation farther than this
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y their course of action, they woul
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Sickly men have often won the affec
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frequently been manifested. The chi
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children can be well cared for, and
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Chapter 3 The Care of Children Chil
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are often guilty of manifesting les
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visitors. Her strength should be te
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The father should bear in mind that
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pursuing a course of sin. Property
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will not restrain their unreasonabl
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they would have understood that the
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time. Every woman about to become a
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her own spirit. By thus doing, the
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dish have to be tested. Perhaps the
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principles. The mother should be wi
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their own associates, although corr
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inhaling the impure air caused by m
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period, children should be left, li
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will be in what manner they can bes
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