Health Reform and our Health Institute.
By Roswell F. Cottrell
NOTHING can be more evident to the observing mind than that health reform is one of the most pressing necessities of our times. The rapid decline of the people in regard to health is so obvious to all those that have seen fifty years, that we may reasonably conclude that, should time continue, our race would soon run out and become extinct. We have not the strength of constitution that our fathers had, and the rising generation are much weaker still. In fact, healthy young persons are seldom to be found. Bones, as well as muscles and sinews, are failing, so that it is no uncommon thing for young persons to be patched up with artificial teeth, before they are one and twenty years of age. And with the physical, the mental and moral are falling into decline. It is easy for those that believe that God is, and that he is doing a special work to prepare a people for the finishing touch of immortality at the coming of the Life-giver, to believe also that the health reform is important as a part of the work of preparation for that event. It is evident to the observing believer that such a work is needed, and consequently that the testimony on this subject, professing to come from Heaven, is indeed true, and therefore what it professes to be. And no believer has any reason to fear that the Health Institute, brought into being as it was, will prove a failure. God is with his people. Those who cheerfully follow the light will not be deceived. The words of God will be verified. Those who simply trust will find they have not followed a cunningly devised fable. It is the skeptical and unbelieving that will eventually find that they made a sad mistake. Let those who would make a good and safe investment take stock in this truly benevolent enterprise. Those who do so in faith and love will find in the end that it is safe and profitable.