HEALTH WORK AN ENTERING WEDGE.
By Annie Hemming
If some intelligent, whole-hearted Seventh-day Adventist family would come here and live among the people, doing some of the many little things that must be done in pioneer work, such as visiting the sick, showing the women of their neighbourhood how to make healthful garments; going into the kitchen and teaching them how to make good bread; loaning them papers and books; inviting them to our Sabbath-school; teaching mothers the effect of diet upon the health and morals of their children, — if some one would do this work, it would leave me free to go on with my Bible work, and the results of that work would be much greater. I spoke on the subject of diet several times before the W. C. T. U. One Thursday the president asked me to conduct the mothers’ meeting. The subject for the occasion was Reverence. I changed it to Reverence for the Body; and after talking from some Bible texts, read extracts from “Healthful Living.” The precious light was much appreciated, judging from the remarks of those who shook hands with me at the close of the meeting. The secretary said, “I pity the one who takes charge of the next meeting.” After a Bible reading, one who has recently begun to keep the Sabbath said, “Why did not I know these truths years ago? How different things would now be with me!” Let us each ask ourselves, Am I responsible for others not having had an opportunity to learn these things years ago?