PEOPLE have no right to be careless concerning their health. First, they have their own duties to do, and they can not do them properly without health; secondly, no person can be sick without interfering with the rights and privileges and comforts of others. Probably three fourths of the sickness and disease in the world could be prevented by a little care, and what a shame it is for people who ought to be and might be well and useful in the world, to make themselves ill and dependent and miserable, and so hinder others from their work, and weary them and make them ill, when a little care might have prevented it all! It is every person’s duty to be well and strong, rather than weak, sickly, miserable, helpless, and burdensome to others. Hence all persons should be thoughtful and careful about their health. Christians especially should care for their bodies, which are the temples of the Holy Ghost, and their health, which is necessary for effective service for the Master. No one but a brute would wish to work a horse till it was sick; yet many who claim to be Christians will work themselves, and their families, in a way which would be cruel in the case of a horse or a mule. People must learn to be careful of the Lord’s property, and Christians are not their own; they are “bought with a price,” and should, therefore, glorify God in their bodies.—The Safeguard.