Where Reform Should Begin—The efforts of our temperance workers are not sufficiently far-reaching to banish the curse of intemperance from our land. Habits once formed are hard to overcome. The reform should begin with the mother before the birth of her children; and if God’s instructions were faithfully obeyed, intemperance would not exist.
(Te 170.1)
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It should be the constant effort of every mother to conform her habits to God’s will, that she may work in harmony with Him to preserve her children from the health- and life-destroying vices of the present day. Let mothers place themselves without delay in right relations to their Creator, that they may by His assisting grace build around their children a bulwark against dissipation and intemperance.—Counsels on Diet and Foods, 225, 226.
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The Habits of the Father and the Mother—As a rule, every intemperate man who rears children, transmits his inclinations and evil tendencies to his offspring.—The Review and Herald, November 21, 1882.
(Te 170.3)
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The child will be affected for good or evil by the habits of the mother. She must herself be controlled by principle, and must practice temperance and self-denial, if she would seek the welfare of her child.—Counsels on Diet and Foods, 218.
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