A Solemn Appeal - Ellen G. White

wife and mother, will reflect back their own
cheering beams upon the heart of the father.
The husband will frequently see his wife careworn
and debilitated, growing prematurely old, in
laboring to prepare food to suit the vitiated taste.
He gratifies the appetite, and will eat and drink
those things which it costs much time and labor to
prepare for the table, and which have a tendency to
make those who partake of them nervous and
irritable. The wife and mother is seldom free from
the headache, and the children are suffering the
effects of eating unwholesome food, and there is a
great lack of patience and affection with parents
and children. All are sufferers together, for health
has been sacrificed to lustful appetite. The
offspring, before its birth, has had transmitted to it
disease and an unhealthy appetite. And the
irritability, nervousness, and despondency,
manifested by the mother, will mark the character
of her child.
In past generations, if mothers had informed
themselves in regard to the laws of their being,
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