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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1885

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 34

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Life Lengthened.

1. CULTIVATE an equable temper; many a man has fallen dead in a fit of passion.
2. Eat regularly, not over thrice a day, and nothing between meals.
3. Go to bed at regular hours. Get up as soon as you wake of yourself, and do not sleep in the daytime, at least not longer than ten minutes before noon.
4. Work always by the day, and not by the job.
5. Stop working before you are very much tired, “fagged out.”
6. Cultivate a generous and accommodating temper.
7. Never cross a bridge before you come to it; this will save you half the trouble of life.
8. Never eat when you are not hungry, nor drink when you are not thirsty.
9. Let your appetite always come uninvited.
10. Cool off in a place greatly warmer than the one in which you have been exercising. This simple rule would prevent incalculable sickness and save millions of lives every year.
11. Never resist a call of nature for a single moment.
12. Never permit yourself to be chilled “through and through;” it is this which destroys so many every year, in a few days’ sickness from pneumonia, called by some lung fever, or inflammation of the lungs.
13. Whoever drinks no liquids at all will add years of pleasurable existence to his life. Drinking at meals induces people to eat more than they otherwise would, as anyone can verify by experiment; and it is excess in eating that devastates the land with sickness, suffering, and death.
14. After fifty years of age, if not a day laborer, and sedentary persons after forty, should eat but twice a day, in the morning and about four in the afternoon. Persons can soon accustom themselves to a seven hours’ interval between eating, thus giving the stomach rest; for every organ, without adequate rest, will “give out” prematurely.
15. Begin early to live under the benign influence of the Christian religion, for it “has the promise of life which now is, and of that which is to come.”—Journal of Health.