Mental Activity Produces Health—God wants His delegated servants to be good preachers, and in order to do this they must be diligent students.... Studious habits, a firm hold from above, will qualify them for their position as ministers of the gospel of Christ. Mental activity will produce health, and this is better than a sluggish, disorderly, untrained mind. Many become worthless as ministers after advancing in age.... Had they worked the brain, they would have been fruitful in old age.—Lt 33, 1886. {2MCP 399.3}

Mental aktivitet afføder sundhed — Gud ønsker at hans delegerede tjenere skal være gode forkyndere, og for at gøre dette må de studere ihærdigt. . . Flittige vaner, et fast greb ovenfra, vil kvalificere dem til deres position som Kristi evangeliuMS prædikanter. Mental aktivitet vil afføde sundhed, og dette er bedre end et dovent, uordentligt og utrænet sindelag. Mange bliver værdiløse som prædikanter når de kommer op i alderen. . . . . Havde de arbejdet med hjernen, ville de have båret frugt i den høje alder. — brev 33, 1886.