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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 11, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 1.

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THE HEALTH REFORM.

By Joseph Harvey Waggoner

This subject has been too much neglected of late in the Review. And it has been suggested that the Reformer is to take the place of the Review in this department, so that it is no longer necessary to write for the Review on this subject. This, I think, is a mistake—a very great mistake.
1. There are many brethren and sisters who do not take the Reformer, and to them the Review is the only medium of instruction on this subject; and they are very often most in need of it.
2. The Health Reform is present truth, and should be treated by us as such. But the Reformer is not a denominational paper, and is not designed to advocate the question in that light.
3. No other paper can take the place of the Reviewin any department appropriate to it. It is the organ of the remnant people of God on every question of present truth and present duty.
4. There can be no excuse for neglecting it in the Review more than in the social meeting, where it is so often and so appropriately introduced. The letter department is the conference meeting of the scattered ones; the only place where “the fellowship of kindred minds” is enjoyed by many lonely lovers of the message of warning for this age.
5. Many earnest brethren and sisters ought to write for the Review, who have no duty, or feel none, to write for the Reformer. And if they do not write for the former, their testimonies are lost to the cause which just now needs our special attention.
May we not hereafter look for many spirited, warm-hearted testimonies from those who have been blessed, bodily and spiritually, in living out this important truth? We know many—very many who have been blessed in this respect, who go their way like the nine lepers who were cleansed, while very few return, like the “stranger,” to “give God the glory.”
And finally, I confess that I have been remiss in this respect: I have suffered “much to do,” “circumstances,” &c., to step in as an excuse for not oftener speaking on this subject, to the scattered flock. I invite my brethren and sisters to join with me in “redeeming the time.”
J. H. WAGGONER. Ithaca, Mich., Nov. 15.