The Health Institute at Battle Creek.
By John Nevins Andrews
I DESIRE to call the attention of our friends still further to this important enterprise. Its merits have been well set forth by others, and with what has been said I heartily agree. As a people, we have undertaken to do what no other religious denomination, to my knowledge, has ever attempted. We have taken in hand the idea of Christian temperance as set forth in the Bible and endeavored to make it a practical matter throughout our whole body. Considering the difficulties of the undertaking, we have met with great success. That this great idea of “ceasing to do evil and learning to do well,” is the grand secret of restoring and preserving health, is now clearly understood. But how shall we secure the accomplishment of this object? We answer that this is to be effected to a large extent by the proposed Health Institute. Here we mean to have not only the best facilities for the treatment of disease, but the best of instructions by means of lectures, that everything may be fully understood by those who shall attend. All indeed will not be able to visit the Institute; but some from every quarter will do it, and thus practical instruction will be diffused throughout our ranks on the preservation of health, and on the treatment of disease. We therefore appeal to our friends everywhere, to aid in this important enterprise, by taking shares in the Health Institute. We mean that it shall be managed with prudence and integrity, and we believe that it will yield a fair per cent. upon the money invested. We therefore ask those who appreciate this enterprise, to invest their means therein, believing that they may help forward a noble object, and at the same time secure a fair return to themselves.