Hygienic Living and Sickness
By Editor
The communication from Bro. Amadon, in another column, may be the first information with many of our readers that he has been prostrated with a severe attack of typhoid fever. And we learn that some are ready to ask how it is that those who are trying to live hygienically, if the system is as good as we claim it is, are ever sick. We answer that some of us are not yet able to live altogether hygienically in the matter of labor. Bro. A.'s attack was brought on by an undue amount of care and labor as foreman of this Office. The apology we have to offer for this is that it is the hardest thing in the world for a person, whose whole interest is in the work, to see the work suffer, if he can prevent it by a sacrifice of his own strength. But violation of law in labor, as well as in diet or any other habit of life, has its penalty which must be paid. And yet, even in sickness, the benefits of the hygienic system are greatly apparent. Had Bro. A. been living as once, this attack would, in all probability, have proved fatal. As it is, through the care of the physicians of the Institute, and the blessing of Heaven, he is rapidly coming up to health again. We greatly need at this Office another hand, as our work is continually increasing, who is a practical printer in all its departments, engineer and pressman, and who can share in the responsibilities and labors of the foreman.