p. 7 | DO NOT READ THIS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 8, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 18, No. 14.

DO NOT READ THIS

By Editor

UNLESS you are willing to act upon it. That we are living in the last days, a multitude of omens in the physical, political, social, and religious worlds surely show, as declared by our Lord in Matt. 24:33 and Luke 21:25-27. Among the indications of the world's approaching doom and dissolution, are gluttony, drunkenness, licentiousness, unrestrained looseness of the baser passions and appetites, and sickness and disease of every kind. The great questions of the world are: "What shall we eat? and, What shall we drink? and, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" The majority of professed Christians follow in the same line, not only making the religion of Christ a religion of sensuousness, but too often of sensuality. The world is living over again the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, against which our Lord has given us many and frequent warnings in his word and otherwise. See Luke 17:28-30; 21:34, 35; Rom. 13:12-14. The only hope which we will have of not being swept away by all these diseases of spiritual Egypt is to submit to God's will, eat and drink to his glory (1 Cor. 10:31), and then we can consistently ask the protecting care of God in shielding us from disease. On the other hand, if we persistently ignore the light God has given us on healthful living, our minds will become blinded, and we will drift to destruction, while consoling ourselves that we are safe. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hos. 4:6; Isa. 5:13.

In the providence of God we have journals whose object is to teach the way of healthful living, to teach us how to get well, and how to keep well; not only this, but how to help us to preserve pure minds, clean hearts, clear intellects, so as to best glorify God. The chief of these are Good Health, in the East, and Pacific Health Journal, on the Pacific Coast and in the West. The latter has a small circulation among our own people. Its circulation among those without should be three times what it is at present, and it would reach that figure if our people were as interested in it as they should be. It contains every month that which would be of priceless value if reduced to practice in our homes.

It is often said, "We cannot afford it." But how often it is that we can afford to be ill, and spend without a murmur from five to twenty-five times, in the course of the year, what the Health Journal would cost us. Are not these things so? They have a bearing on our eternal destiny. Can we afford not to take one of our health publications? And ought not those on the Pacific Coast to support our attractive, and, by many, highly-prized Pacific Health Journal? You cannot afford to be without it. May we not see in 1892 a much larger circulation of our health publications? The price of the Journal is $1.00 per year. Address, Pacific Health Journal, Oakland, Cal.