CAUSES AND EFFECTS by Jos. Clarke

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 2, 1867

CAUSES AND EFFECTS.

By Jos. Clarke

It is matter of rejoicing that God's people are waking up to the necessity of reform in diet, reform in dress, and in respect to all the errors of the times. Were it otherwise, and were the world in advance of the church in matters of reform, we might well be in doubt, if indeed the Lord approved his professed people, or if it were the world he approved. What is the church established for, if not for the reform and purification of a people for God?

It is pleasant to see following this reform such good effects; the Review enlarged, and more than ever pressed with original matter, beyond its limits, so that another enlargement is called for: and we say, May God speed its enlargement, and its circulation, and its usefulness; for the people who have come down to the demands of nature in regard to diet, and habits pertaining to health, can now have time to read it, and time and mind to write for it; for a clear understanding follows good health. House-keepers are no more slaves, nor are heads of families called on to supply an expensive and ruinous appetite; though this consideration has never been a motive, yet such an effect must follow; that is a great reduction of labor and expense in living; the young will not become prematurely old; nor will the old be soon laid on the shelf, or in the grave; no, this reform, sneered at by gluttons, and despised by drunkards, is even now an inestimable blessing.

The crazy fanaticism of some professed Adventists, who represent such reforms as contrary to our faith, must soon be apparent to all, and their arguments refute themselves.

JOS. CLARKE.