Health Reform and Christian Growth
[The following extract, Sister Adelia P. Van Horn takes from a private letter received from her father, Bro. L. C. Patten, of Clay, N. Y., who has for two years past been observing the Sabbath of the Lord.] My Dear Daughter: You will be glad to learn that my health is as good as it has been since I was twenty-five years old. I am trying to live out the Health Reform to the best of my ability. It has been some time since we laid aside the use of meat as an article of food, and I realize an improvement in body and in mind. I am nearly fifty-three years of age, and for a few years past have felt conscious that my strength was failing; but by blessings attending the reform in living, my condition is much improved, and during the last spring I was able to follow a team and plow two acres per day. Tell Bro. White that the discourse he gave at our State Conference in Adams' Center nearly two years since, on the subject of "The Ladder with Eight Rounds," which was published in "How to Live," has not yet lost its influence; and that your father means by the assisting grace of God, to place his erring feet upon every round of that sacred ladder, and strive for an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.