The inactivity of the mental and physical powers as far as useful labor is concerned is that which keeps many invalids in a condition of feebleness which they feel powerless to rise above. It also gives them a greater opportunity to indulge an impure imagination,—an indulgence which has brought many of them into their present condition of feebleness. They are told that they have expended too much vitality in hard labor, when, in nine cases out of ten, the labor they performed was the only redeeming thing in their lives and was the means of saving them from utter ruin. While their minds were thus engaged, they could not have as favorable an opportunity to debase their bodies and to complete the work of destroying themselves. To have all such persons cease to labor with brain and muscle is to give them ample opportunity to be taken captive by the temptations of Satan. {4T 95.1}

(95) Mentale og fysiske kræfter der ikke bruges, holder mange invalider i en svag tilstand, som får dem til at føle sig magtesløse i helbredelsen. Det giver dem også bedre anledning til at føje en uren indbildning, - en indbildning som har bragt mange af dem i den tilstand de nu er i. De har fået at vide at de har brugt for meget af deres livskraft på hårdt arbejde, skønt arbejdet i ni ud af ti tilfælde, blot har været til hjælp for dem og var det middel der reddede dem fra fuldstændig ruin. Da deres tanker var så optaget, havde de ikke så god en anledning til at forringe deres legemer og fuldende deres selvdestruktion. Fik alle disse mennesker lov til ikke at arbejde med hjerne og muskler, var det meget sandsynligt at de blev fanget af Satans fristelser.