Will mothers of this generation feel the sacredness of their mission and not try to vie with their wealthy neighbors in appearances, but seek to excel them in faithfully performing the work of instructing their children for the better life? If children and youth were trained and educated to habits of self-denial and self-control, if they were taught that they eat to live instead of living to eat, there would be less disease and less moral corruption. There would be little necessity for temperance crusades, which amount to so little, if in the youth who form and fashion society, right principles in regard to temperance could be implanted. They would then have moral worth and moral integrity to resist, in the strength of Jesus, the pollutions of these last days. {3T 567.1}

Ville denne generations mødre føle helligheden i deres opgave og ikke prøve at kappes med deres velhavende naboer i deres udseende, men søge efter at overgå dem i trofasthed og lære deres børn for det bedre liv? Hvis børn og unge var oplærte og uddannede i selvfornægtelsens og selvkontrollens vaner, hvis de var belært at de spiser for at leve, i stedet for at leve for at spise, ville der ikke være så mange sygdomme og så meget moralsk fordærv. Så ville der ikke være så meget brug for afholdenhedens-korstog, som tæller så lidt, hvis rigtige principper, med hensyn til mådehold, kunne indplantes i de unge der former og danner samfund. De vil da have moralsk værdi og moralsk renhed til, i Jesu styrke, at modstå disse sidste dages besmittelse.