Working for Health

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1909

Working for Health

Continuing his speech, Judge Buffington uttered these true words for school hygiene and care of health:—

We hear much in these days of the tremendous waste in our natural resources and the need of conservation. No greater thing did Mr. Roosevelt do than to awaken the nation to the imperative call for such conserving; but I can not but wish we might have some national apostle of health, who would stir our people to the conservation of its own life. And am I not right when I say that the college world is false to real education if it sends out as world workers men who have not in college learned the duty and acquired the habit of conserving, of daily strengthening their bodies to replace the daily consumption of strength the world's work consumes?

As I go through the world I am surprised to find how many big men, the men who are really doing things, the President of the United States and his predecessor, too, have taken hold of the idea that to do things and keep doing things a man must work for health as persistently as he follows his work, and that in the simple, persistent, daily natural care of body and food and air lies the secret of sustained work.