Sunshine | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1878

Sunshine.

NEVER shut God's glorious sunshine from your homes. If you must have a portion of your homes too fine ever to admit his presence, in the name of pale, sickly, and withered humanity, have at least one room set apart, from which his life-giving rays are never excluded, and where you can daily resort, to bask and bathe in his healthful and curative influence; for sunshine, and plenty of it, is essential to the full and healthy development of body and mind. And when we break nature's laws, and fall ill in consequence, a simple sunlight bath would do more toward restoring to health than many of the nauseous medicines that doctors prescribe in Latinized formulas, with such an air of importance and profundity as often to awe poor ailing mortals into the belief that they have but to swallow the stuff, and be healed.

Sunlight baths may be had without money and without price. If too weak to go into the open air and take one as nature dictates, or if out-door walks in the sun are not in accordance with your ideas of respectability and refinement, and you cannot get over them by indulging in a little common sense, why, in the name of health, good looks, and sweet temper, draw your cushioned chair up to the window, and sink as gracefully and as languidly as you please into it, and remain there until the revivifying sun sends the blood bounding and leaping through your veins with its vitalizing agency.

There are few persons, and physicians among the number, who have been honest enough to prescribe sunlight as a remedial agent; but it is evident that were all ailments cured by such simple and cheap remedies as sunlight, air, water, exercise, and diet, there would be no need of drugstores or physicians; they would be blotted out of existence, and the followers of those professions would be called to a new field to obtain a livelihood. We want the people to become enlightened and seek for the promotion of health and prevention of disease by the simple but efficacious remedies which Nature mixes and offers with her own hand free of charge to all who will partake thereof; and which remedies only require the sanction and recommendation of physicians to have them substituted for the nauseous constitution-breaking, and life-destroying drugs that are constantly being consumed by invalids, through ignorance of their nature and effect upon the system.—Sel.