The Health Institute by Jos. Clark

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1867

The Health Institute.

By Jos. Clark

No enterprise could be more important at the present time, than that in which S. D. Adventists have enlisted; that is, the Health Reform. When we consider the diseased state of the human body, and the murderous attempts made by venders of deadly poisons, to restore health to the sick and the diseased, thus plunging the body already diseased into hopeless misery and death; we say, considering the fearful extent of this evil, we hail the health-reform movement as a bright and celestial star.

Foremost in this Reform, is the Western Health Reform Institute, at Battle Creek, already a fixed fact, and in full operation, on a small, or rather, a limited scale.

It seems that the friends of truth and humanity foresee a wide sphere for this department of usefulness, and more funds are needed to set it upon a footing such as the times demand; not as a gift, but as a good investment.

Suppose that twenty rich brethren invest one thousand each, and forty more invest five hundred each, and the poorer brethren make out the other ten thousand, with their one and two or three shares, each; thus the forty thousand can be easily and speedily raised, and all good stock at a premium.

Jos. CLARK.