Tips On Sleep

The importance of regularity in the time for eating and sleeping should not be overlooked. Since the
work of building up the body takes place during the hours of rest, it is essential, especially in youth, that sleep
should be regular and abundant. (CG 363)

I know from the testimonies given me from time to time for brain workers, that sleep is worth far more
before than after midnight. Two hours' good sleep before twelve o'clock is worth more than four hours after
twelve o'clock. . . .(7MR 224)

Some youth are much opposed to order and discipline. They do not respect the rules of the home by rising at a
regular hour. They lie in bed some hours after daylight, when everyone should be astir. They burn the midnight
oil, depending upon artificial light to supply the place of the light that nature has provided at seasonable hours.
In so doing they not only waste precious opportunities, but cause additional expense. But in almost every case
the plea is made, "I cannot get through my work; I have something to do; I cannot retire early." . . . The precious
habits of order are broken, and the moments thus idled away in the early morning set things out of course for the
whole day. Our God is a God of order, and He desires that His children shall will to bring themselves into order
and under His discipline. Would it not be better, therefore, to break up this habit of turning night into day, and
the fresh hours of the morning into night? If the youth would form habits of regularity and order, they would
improve in health, in spirits, in memory, and in disposition. (CG 111)

Importance of Regularity and Order

The same power that upholds nature is working also in man. The same great laws that guide alike the
star and the atom control human life. The laws that govern the heart's action, regulating the flow of the current
of life to the body, are the laws of the mighty Intelligence that has the jurisdiction of the soul. From Him all life
proceeds. Only in harmony with Him can be found its true sphere of action. For all the objects of His creation
the condition is the same--a life sustained by receiving the life of God, a life exercised in harmony with the
Creator's will. To transgress His law--physical, mental, or moral--is to place one's self out of harmony with the
universe, to introduce discord, anarchy, ruin. (CG 55)

Washington, the nation's statesman, was enabled to perform a great amount of business because he was
thorough in preserving order and regularity. Every paper had its date and its place, and no time was lost in
looking up what had been mislaid. Men of God must be diligent in study, earnest in the acquirement of
knowledge, never wasting an hour. Through persevering exertion they may rise to almost any degree of
eminence as Christians, as men of power and influence. But many will never attain superior rank in the pulpit or
in business because of their unfixedness of purpose and the laxness of habits contracted in their youth. Careless
inattention is seen in everything they undertake. A sudden impulse now and then is not sufficient to accomplish
a reformation in these ease-loving, indolent ones; this is a work which requires patient continuance in well-
doing. Men of business can be truly successful only by having regular hours for rising, for prayer, for meals,
and for retirement. If order and regularity are essential in worldly business, how much more so in doing work
for God. (4T 411)

Youth is the time to lay up knowledge in those lines that can be put into daily practice throughout the
life. Youth is the time to establish good habits, to correct wrong ones, to gain and hold the power of self-control,
to accustom oneself to ordering all the acts of life with reference to the will of God and the welfare of one's
fellow creatures. Youth is the sowing time that determines the harvest of this life and the life beyond the grave.
The habits formed in childhood and youth, the tastes acquired, the self-control gained, are almost certain to
determine the future of the man or woman. (CT 294)
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To each student in the home I would say, Be true to home duties. Be faithful in the discharge of little responsibilities. Be a
real living Christian in the home. Let Christian principles rule your heart and control your conduct. Heed every suggestion made by
the teacher, but do not make it a necessity always to be told what to do. Discern for yourself. Notice for yourself if all things in your
own room are spotless and in order, that nothing there may be an offense to God, but that when holy angels shall pass through your
room, they may be led to linger because attracted by the prevailing order and cleanliness. In doing your duties promptly, neatly,
faithfully, you are missionaries. You are bearing witness for Christ. You are showing that the religion of Christ does not, in principle or
in practice, make you untidy, coarse,
disrespectful to your teachers, giving little heed to their counsel and instruction. Bible religion, practiced, will make you kind,
thoughtful, faithful. You will not neglect the little things that should be done. Adopt as your motto the words of Christ: "He that is
faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much."