Disease Passed From Generation to Generation—Sickly men have often won the affections of women apparently healthy, and because they loved each other, they felt themselves at perfect liberty to marry.... If those who thus enter the marriage relation were alone concerned, the sin would not be so great. Their offspring are compelled to be sufferers by disease transmitted to them. Thus disease has been perpetuated from generation to generation.... They have thrown upon society an enfeebled race, and done their part to deteriorate the race, by rendering disease hereditary, and thus accumulating human suffering.—Healthful Living, 28, 1865 (Part 2). (Selected Messages 2:423.) {1MCP 137.2}

Sygdom går over fra generation til generation. - Syge mennesker har ofte vundet kvinders hengivenhed, som tilsyneladende sunde, og fordi de elskede hinanden, følte de at de var helt frie til at gifte sig med hinanden. . . . . Hvis det angik alene dem som således går ind i ægteskabsforholdet, så ville synden ikke være så stor. Men deres afkom er tvunget til at lide af de sygdomme der overføres til dem. Derved bevares sygdommen fra generation til generation. . . . . De har pådraget samfundet en svækket slægt, og gjort deres del for at forringe slægten, ved at lade sygdommen gå i arv, og derved ophobe menneskelig lidelse. - HL (Part 2) 28, 1865. (2SM 423.)