LIFE and HEALTH by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 25, 1908

LIFE and HEALTH

By Editor

HOW many of our readers are familiar with our health journal, Life and Health? How many realize that this journal is published with a view of meeting the needs of every home,—teaching obedience to hygienic principles in the care of the health, and emphasizing individual duty in preserving life and health as long as possible? How many are familiar with the principles it represents, and the simple home treatments it prescribes for various diseases? How many comprehend the real need of this health journal in their own homes, and in the homes of their neighbors and friends? How many know that true religion and the laws of health go hand in hand, and that one of the best ways to work for the salvation of individuals is to teach them to discard sinful gratifications, which prevent spiritual things from impressing their minds?

The July Number

This issue of Life and Health brings instruction that can be easily applied in the daily life, and that will greatly help in prolonging life and rendering it more possible “to live twice as long, and twice as well.” It cites the application of the principles of natural health laws in the life of Daniel and his companions; John the Baptist; and, in modern times, Louis Cornaro, who lived to be over one hundred years old; the Honorable David Wark of the Canadian Senate; and Captain Diamond, all of whom attributed their long, happy, and useful lives to their conformity to the true principles of health and temperance.

The Mother’s Counselor and the Baby’s Friend

The hot weather season being the time of the greatest infant mortality, the July number has been prepared with a view to bringing to mothers special instruction bearing directly upon the proper care of children and babies during the heated season. It will be a blessing to every home where there are children. The leading feature of this entire issue is the care of the health of both young and old just at the time when sickness is most common, especially among children. Associated with this special counsel are important suggestions that blend with it so consistently that the whole forms a very practical number. Let all our members consider their duty in connection with its circulation.

How It Is Going

During the last week’s run of the June number of Life and Health, the publishers received one wire order for 2,000 copies, another for 1,500, and a third for 500 copies. A letter order for 1,000 copies reached the publishers every day throughout the week. Orders for 500 copies were frequent. Orders for 100 copies, with comparatively few for less, swelled the output during the week to something over 15,000 copies. There are now over 1,200 persons who sell Life and Health by single copies as they find time and opportunity. Some of them are devoting their entire time to the sale of the journal. These are averaging from $3.50 to $7 a day profit.

Is It Important?

“The people are in sad need of the light shining from the pages of our health and temperance journals. God desires to use these journals as mediums through which flashes of light shall arrest the attention of the people and cause them to heed the warning of the third angel. Our health journals are instrumentalities in the field to do a special work in disseminating the light which the inhabitants of the world must have in this day of God’s preparation. They wield an untold influence in the interests of health and temperance and of social purity reform, and will accomplish great good in presenting these subjects in a proper manner and in their true light to the people.”—Mrs. E. G. White.

“Let none think that the circulation of the health journal is a minor matter. All should take hold of this work with more interest, and make greater efforts in this direction.”—Mrs. E. G. White.

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PRICES

Single copy, 10 cents; 2 to 25 copies, 5 cents a copy; 25 to 500 copies, 4 cents a copy. Special rates on orders of 500 or more copies. Subscription, 75 cents a year. Foreign subscriptions, including Canada, $1 a year.

Life and Health, Washington, D. C.