A Testimony to Health Reform
By Eld. James Dickson
ELD. JAMES DICKSON writes from Northumberland Co., Pa.: I have had the great pleasure of reading several copies of your excellent paper called “Advent Review and Sabbath Herald;” which were kindly lent me by a lady who was on a visit to this place, and became so deeply interested in the articles on health that I at once gave up the use of tobacco, tea, coffee and butter. I will not say meat, too, though for ten days I did; but so little do I now eat, that I am most temperate in its use. My wife is also coming gradually to abstain from these hurtful articles. I feel greatly indebted to you, and very thankful to God, for every article I have read in which you have endeavored to influence your readers against the use of these common poisons which are taken into the system so freely by almost all. And I shall ever consider the time I accidentally saw the paper lying on Mrs. B’s. table and obtained them to read, as one of the most eventful epochs of my life.