Chapter 42—Mother’s Health and Personal
Appearance
Mother’s Health to Be Cherished—The strength of the mother
should be tenderly cherished. Instead of spending her precious strength
in exhausting labor, her care and burdens should be lessened. Often
the husband and father is unacquainted with the physical laws which
the well-being of his family requires him to understand. Absorbed in
the struggle for a livelihood, or bent on acquiring wealth, and pressed
with cares and perplexities, he allows to rest upon the wife and mother
burdens that overtax her strength at the most critical period and cause
feebleness and disease
It is for her own interest, and that of her family, to save herself
all unnecessary taxation and to use every means at her command to
preserve life, health, and the energies which God has given her; for she
will need the vigor of all her faculties for her great work. A portion
of her time should be spent out-of-doors, in physical exercise, that
she may be invigorated to do her work indoors with cheerfulness and
thoroughness, being the light and blessing of the home
Mothers to Be Advocates of Health Reform—The will of God
has been plainly expressed to all mothers; He would have them, by
precept and example, advocates of health reform. They should plant
their feet firmly upon principle, in no case to violate the physical laws
which God has implanted in their beings. “Standing by a purpose
true,” with firm integrity, mothers will have moral power and grace
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from Heaven to let their light shine forth to the world, both in their
own upright course and in the noble character of their children
To Exercise Self-control in Diet—The mother needs the most
perfect self-control; and in order to secure this, she should take all
precautions against any physical or mental disorder. Her life should
be ordered according to the laws of God and of health. As the diet
1
The Ministry of Healing, 373
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2
Pacific Health Journal, June, 1890
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3
Good Health, February, 1880
.
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