Personal by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1878

Personal.

By Editor

WE are sure that all our readers will take an interest in the following notice, which we take from the Herald of Denison City, Texas, as it gives such cheering news of the restoration to health of Elder White:—

“TEMPERANCE.—As was noticed in our local columns on Friday, we were favored with a visit from Elder James White. The reverend gentleman embodied in his presence the most forcible temperance lesson with which we have ever come in contact.

“Elder White, in the course of conversation, stated that he had never taken a drink of alcoholic liquor in his life. We were not at all surprised at the statement, for the gentleman, though fully sixty years of age, is as strong, as robust and erect as a man of forty.

“His eyes are bright and undimmed. His hand is as firm as a boy’s, and his step as light and elastic as that of an acrobat.

“Is this merely a coincidence or is it the natural effect of a natural cause? We contend that the latter proposition is the true one. Here is a man upon whom his years bear lightly. He has passed through trials and poverty, and has had his share of grief, just the same as falls to the lot of other men. He has had probably as much need (?) for stimulating drink as any one ever has, yet the fact proved in this case is that there does not exist a need for strong drink. Elder White is one of the many examples of the same kind that would serve as a warning to young men who are sowing the seeds of decay and death with alcohol.”

A letter from Brother White informs us that they will make their home in Texas this winter. We had hoped to be cheered by their presence and aided by their counsel in Oakland this winter.