ARE YOU TRANSFORMING YOUR HOME INTO A SANITARIUM?
By David Paulson
If not, why not? It is impossible for all to have the benefit of our regularly organized health institutions. Nevertheless, those deprived of such a privilege have a right to some of the crumbs that fall from our richly furnished tables. God has not been sending this people such splendid rays of light upon the subject of right living, and the care of the sick, all these years simply for us to hoard up for ourselves, or perhaps even worse, discard altogether. These truths were intrusted to us for the benefit of the world, and God will sooner or later demand of us a strict account of our stewardship. The greatest thing about a sanitarium is not by any means the completeness of its appliances, but the amount of light and truth that it cherishes, and reflects into the hearts and lives of those who are brought in contact with it. The successful cure of ordinary periodical sick headache requires neither an extensive paraphernalia nor a scientific training. Do you know what kind of diet to recommend in order to clear up a coated tongue? Are you aware that the average attack of biliousness is only an indication of decomposition and fermentation in the stomach? Do you know what a simple thing it is to cure it? If not, why not? If your own families do not need such information, some one in your immediate vicinity is suffering because of the lack of it. Are you so busily engaged in the commonplace affairs of life that you have no time to give special attention to the subjects which pertain to the health of soul and body? If so, what assurance have you that the angels of God will not be too busy to care for you when a thousand fall on one side and ten thousand on the other? As an excuse, do you say you cannot afford to subscribe for the journals or purchase the literature through which God would convey these truths to the people? If so, have you not wondered how your neighbor who is in the same financial condition as you are, succeeded in meeting the funeral expense of his only child, who might have lived if your home had been the center of light and health that God intended it should be? The homes of all those who expect soon to meet God should be miniature sanitariums. Then, and not until then, will be fulfilled some of those prophecies in the latter part of the book of Isaiah, relative to the wonderful position that the people of God are to occupy in the world just prior to the close of time.