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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 30, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 26.

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Life and Health

By Editor

THESE are the two greatest blessings conferred on humanity; without them other blessings are valueless. They are given us in trust. Do we realize their value?
What may not be accomplished by a man in vigorous health, mental and physical?
Men are falling over one another in their scramble for the “almighty dollar;” but what is it good for without health?
How much health can you buy for money? Rockefeller is said to have offered a million dollars for a new stomach.
You can’t exchange! Health once lost is gone!
A fortune lost may be recovered.
Health lost, is lost forever.
Yet men risk life and health in the endeavor to secure a few more dollars.
The expenditure of time and means in studying your own body and its needs is the best investment you can possibly make.
The Christian especially, desiring to render the best possible service to the Master, needs good health.
Satan tempted Christ to jump from the pinnacle of the temple, quoting the promise, “He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee. . . . And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.” To have yielded would have been presumption. It is just as much presumption to eat injurious foods on the strength of the Saviour’s promise to his disciples that if they should take any deadly thing, it would not hurt them.
Missionaries die. Many of them die young, often just as they have begun to wield a strong influence in the missionary field. They yield their lives, not so much to climate as to ignorance or carelessness regarding the laws of health.
Many people in home lands limit their period of activity and their efficiency by disobeying the laws written in their own body by the Creator.
The fact that one is a Christian worker is no guarantee that Providence will protect him in the violation of the laws of health. Do you know that there are such laws?
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
The purpose of the magazine Life and Health (continuation of Pacific Health Journal) is to furnish its readers with a continuous mine of information on health topics, as:—
1. Seasonable hints on diet, clothing, exercise.
2. The healthful preparation of food.
3. Suggestions for the care of the sick.
4. Answers to questions pertaining to the care of the body and the treatment of disease.
We have been told that the health reform is an entering wedge to prepare the way for the reception of the message.
Many persons reading our health literature will be led thereby to become interested in other matter pertaining to the truth for this time.
Thousands of papers could be sold where now there is none.
People everywhere are becoming interested in health topics.
Health periodicals with various fads are springing up like mushrooms.
Now is the time to push the real, live health principles that have been given to us.
A live worker can dispose of a hundred or more copies of Life and Health in a day, which would afford a good living while doing much toward the promulgation of the gospel of health.
Life and Health should have a circulation of FIFTY THOUSAND COPIES AT ONCE.
Special terms to agents and tract societies.
Orders may now be placed for the July number.