Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

your room well ventilated, and perform useful
physical labor. To young ladies I would say,
tightlacing is a sin, and will bring its sure results.
The lungs, the liver, the heart, need all the room the
Lord has provided for them. Your Creator
understood how much room the heart and liver
require in order to set their vital parts in the human
organism. Let not Satan tempt you to crowd the
delicate organs, so that they shall be trammeled in
their work. Do not, because the fashions of this
degenerate world are taken up as desirable, so
crowd the life forces that they have no freedom.
Satan suggested all such fashions, that the human
family might suffer the sure results of abusing
God's handiwork.
The giving way to violent emotions endangers
life. Many die under a burst of rage and passions.
Many educate themselves to have spasms. These
they can prevent if they will; but it requires will
power to overcome a wrong course of action. All
this must be a part of the education received in the
school; for we are God's property. The sacred
temple of the body must be kept pure and
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