My brother, you are far from God; you are in a state of backsliding. You do not possess noble moral courage. You yield to your own desires instead of denying self. In seeking after happiness, you have attended places of amusement which God does not approve, and in so doing have weakened your own soul. My brother, you have much to learn. You indulge your appetite by eating more food than your system can convert into good blood. It is sin to be intemperate in the quantity of food eaten, even if the quality is unobjectionable. Many feel that, if they do not eat meat and the grosser articles of food, they may eat of simple food until they cannot well eat more. This is a mistake. Many professed health reformers are nothing less than gluttons. They lay upon the digestive organs so great a burden that the vitality of the system is exhausted in the effort to dispose of it. It also has a depressing influence upon the intellect, for the brain nerve power is called upon to assist the stomach in its work. Overeating, even of the simplest food, benumbs the sensitive nerves of the brain and weakens its vitality. Overeating has a worse effect upon the system than overworking; the energies of the soul are more effectually prostrated by intemperate eating than by intemperate working. {2T 412.1}

Vor medlidende Ypperstepræst kendte til dine svagheder og dine fejl og lod dig ikke uden erfaring kæmpe med den store fjende i ugunstige omgivelser. Var du blevet i ___ ville du ikke have (422) beholdt sandheden. Den modstand du ville have fået ville vække din kamplyst og du ville vanære sandheden med en opfarende ånd; og så, som forhindringer i din kristne færd, vil du miste modet og opgive sandheden. Du har meget at være taknemmelig for. Dit hjerte burde fyldes med taknemmelighed for din elskende Frelser for hans barmhjertighed for dig, til dig som har misbrugt hans kærlighed så længe.