QUITE A SAVING by L. E. O.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 30, 1867

QUITE A SAVING.

By L. E. O.

[THE following article we clip from the April number of the Health Reformer, as we wish such of our readers as have not yet become subscribers to that journal, to know what a “Saving” the Health Reform is.—ED.]

“The Health Reform is quite a saving,” I heard a friend remarking the other day. Oh yes, thought I, indeed it is, if rightly lived out. It saves an amount of bad feelings that we otherwise would experience, and many a hasty dispatch after the village doctor; and our stomachs it saves from the pills, powders and potions that he would administer. It saves us from the foolish idea that Nature’s Laws can be transgressed at pleasure, and we suffer no penalty. It saves wearisome labor in preparing delicacies for our tables that are absolutely hurtful. It saves mothers getting the extra meal that their families are better off without. It saves our kitchens and cookshops from the odors of flesh pots. It saves us from thinking as the fatted swine comes in from the street, or wallows forth from the pen, that God has embodied in such a creature for us, superior strength and sustenance. It saves us from the sickening sensations of tobacco and tobacco smoke. It saves us from stimulants of every kind. It saves our time and money. It saves us sound bodies, pure hearts, and clean consciences. Indeed! what could save us more?

The nodding wheat and tasselled corn, the luxuriant vegetable, the fruitful bough and rambling vine, make for our tables, earth’s most bountiful and best provision; upon these will we ask the blessing of Heaven. The limpid brook, the bubbling spring, the sparkling fountain, from these we may drink. Water! water! shall quench our thirst and cool our brows! Friends! and all ye people! the Health Reform is a saving. God speed the Health Reform!

L. E. O.