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- Chapter 4—Innocent Pleasures for the Youth
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- Chapter 6—Firmness in Resisting Temptation
- Chapter 7—How to Spend Holidays
- Chapter 8—Symmetrical Education
- Chapter 9—Christian Recreation
- Chapter 10—The Dignity of Labor
- Chapter 11—Manual Training
- Chapter 12—Manual Labor
- Chapter 13—Duties and Dangers of the Youth
- Chapter 14—Joy in Christianity
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- Chapter 18—Employment for Patients
- Chapter 19—Physical Exercise as a Remedial Agency
- Chapter 20—Physical Labor an Aid to Recovery
- Chapter 21—Substitutes for Amusements
- Chapter 22—Separate from the World
Chapter 19—Physical Exercise as a Remedial Agency
Physical exercise and labor combined have a happy influence upon the mind, strengthen the muscles, improve the circulation, and give the invalid the satisfaction of knowing his own power of endurance; whereas, if he is restricted from healthful exercise and physical labor, his attention is turned to himself. He is in constant danger of thinking himself worse than he really is, and of having established within him a diseased imagination, which causes him continually to fear that he is overtaxing his powers of endurance. As a general thing, if he would engage in some well-directed labor, using his strength and not abusing it, he would find that physical exercise would prove a more powerful and effective agent in his recovery than even the water treatment he is receiving.—Testimonies for the Church 4:94.PH145 49.1