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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 8.

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L. BARTHOLOMEW

By L. Bartholomew

From Bro. Bartholomew.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: We are commanded to exhort one another, and so much the more as we see the day approaching; and just as fast as that day approaches, so the time hastens when he that is holy will be so, and he that is filthy, or unholy, will so remain. Now brethren and sisters, when I see so many of you slow to take hold of the Health Reform, and try to present your bodies holy and acceptable unto the Lord, I fear that many of you will be found a little behind when intercession is over. O brethren, take heed to yourselves, that you be not “overcharged with surfeiting and the cares of this life,” so that that day will overtake you unawares.
I feel astonished that there are so many that take the Review who have not yet subscribed for the Health Reformer. If we all could realize the benefit to be derived from reading that paper, we should not delay another moment to subscribe for it.
Please bear with my exhortation, and let me say a word in regard to my experience. For two years past I have tried as best I could to live in accordance with the method of living as recommended in the Review. As soon as the first No. of “How to Live” was printed, I sent for it; and in reading that series of tracts, and trying to put in practice the instructions which our leaders have set before us, I would not be deprived to-day of the small amount of knowledge I have gained by so doing, for $1,000. Now brethren and sisters, why not have more confidence in this work? You say you do, perhaps. Then why not send and get How to Live, and the Reformer, and post up on the Health Reform, so as to be prepared to make proper changes from error to the true mode of living.
In conclusion let me say, If we want the Lord to help us, we must help ourselves to such means as he has placed in our reach. If this work is of the Lord, and doubtless we all believe it is, we should not be content with a good theory of present truth, but also have a true knowledge of ourselves, and how to live, and take care of our bodies, that we may be prepared to live out present truth, and purify our hearts by obeying it.
In much love, yours striving for the whole truth.

L. BARTHOLOMEW

Pleasant Grove, Minn.