EXPERIENCE IN HEALTH REFORM.
By R. F. Cottrell
There is no compulsion with our people in regard to living out the principles of this reform, except as it regards the grossest habits. Yet I must be allowed to believe that those who live the nearest to the light given will find in the end that they have taken the wisest course; and believing so, it is certainly right to act accordingly. Some have expressed fears for my health and life, because of my adherence to a wholly vegetable diet, prepared in the most simple manner and taken without condiments; but my health is good. There is scarcely a person living more free from pain and sickness; and from those I have been acquainted with for the past few years I hear the remark that I look healthier than I did when they saw me a few years ago. As I travel about, I hear persons complain of their hard colds produced by the frequent sudden changes of the weather; they are all “stuffed up,” and can hardly breathe. Now I am a stranger to this experience. I take cold by a draft of air, or by leaving a warm, unventilated room; but it goes about as suddenly as it came. The reason I do not get stuffed up, I think, is because the stuff is not in me. Sickness is in the world, both upon man and beast. Pestilences are between us and the coming of our Lord; and I claim the privilege of following the light graciously given us, and getting as near to it as I possibly can. As before expressed, I believe those who follow it the closest will have no cause to regret it. Some are ignorant of the “light” of which I speak. Read up, my friends, read up.