New Year Greetings and Health Reform
By Editor
This number of the Review bears date the first day of the new year. We wish all our readers “A Happy New Year;” and above all we wish them a year of great prosperity in spiritual things, and rapid progress on their way to Mount Zion. Not many more new years will dawn on these realms of woe and sin, ere the people of God will have the privilege of celebrating a new year and a new era, of blissful immortality. We call attention to the article in another column in reference to the Health Institute. For the length of time it has been in operation, the Institution has been successful beyond all our expectations. Yet but a little over half of the $25,000.00, originally called for by the committee, have been pledged, and but little is now doing in the way of pledges; and more means are needed at once to make the Institution what it may and should speedily become. We ask brethren and sisters, everywhere, to awake to the claims of the Health-Reform movement among us, and the important part this Institution is to act in spreading a knowledge of it, theoretically and practically, among the people. The Commentary is this week omitted to make room for the interesting correspondence on the Sabbath question. We have some good items on file for next week. We give in another column some statements concerning Mr. Field, and the Atlantic Telegraph, which are important, as showing that the credit of this wonderful enterprise belongs to an American. In the “annual week of prayer,” recommended by the “Evangelical Alliance,” and quite generally observed, commencing Jan. 6, the subjects given out for Tuesday Jan. 8, are: “Prayer, for nations, for Kings and all in authority, for the increase of righteousness, the prevalence of peace, and the holy observance of the Sabbath.” Who can doubt that our country occupies a providential place in history? In what other land could the proclamation of the truth reach at once so many “peoples, nations and tongues?” Rev. x, 11. People from every civilized part of the globe are here to be found, as a settled and abiding portion of our population. This is proved by the following item concerning but one of the sovereign States of this Union: Illinois contains over 500,000 foreigners. These, with their children born in this country, constitute nearly a million of the population. In the public schools of Chicago more than forty nationalities are represented. People from almost every civilized country on the globe are found here. It is reported that a man has recently been arrested in Pittsburg, Pa., for fitting a window-frame on Sunday.