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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, March 24, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 15

TEMPERANCE AND LONGEVITY.

EPHRAIM PRATT, who lived in the town of Shutesberry, Mass., many years, and died there in 1804, was a remarkable man. He lived to be over 116 years of age. He married at the age of 21, and could count 1500 descendants. He was a very temperate man, so much so that for 40 years he took no animal food. He was a farmer, and his health was so uniformly good that he was able to mow a good swath 101 years in succession. He was born at Sudbury, in 1687.—N. E. Gazetteer.