p. 190 | Health Tracts by M. Wood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 8, 1874

Health Tracts.

By M. Wood

A few days since, I received a package of health tracts, for which I feel very thankful. Immediately upon the reception of them, I carelessly placed them within the reach of one whom I have long tried to persuade to adopt the health reform. My pleadings were in vain. Never, so long as life and reason remain, would he deny himself of what his appetite craved. If he had money to buy with, he would have it, if it killed him. But judge of my surprise, dear reader, when this same person, who had read and reread the Health Reformer, after reading those tracts, informed me that he should never again partake of the filthy swine, and that he should give up his tea, &c.

As he is one who makes no profession of Christianity, it encourages us to press forward. Could people be induced to view the health reform from a religious standpoint, learn to deny self, and seek to comply with the admonition of the apostle Paul in Rom. 12:1, their minds and bodies would be in a healthier condition, better prepared to enjoy life and religion, and to receive the pure and unadulterated truth. And as the health reform is so intimately connected with the third angel’s message, it may be used as a sort of pioneer, to go ahead and break up the fallow ground, and so prepare for the good seed that is soon to follow.

God is moving by his Holy Spirit upon the hearts of the people, and souls are being prepared for the loud cry of the third angel’s message. Soon the privilege of being a co-worker with Jesus, will be among the things that were, and unless we act well our part in the great work that is before us, use our means, time, talents, and influence, toward gathering sheaves for the heavenly garner, we shall be the recipients of those dreadful words, “I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” M. WOOD.

Boston, Mass., Nov. 19, 1874.