p. 14 | To Stem the Tide by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 12, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 11.

To Stem the Tide

By Editor

At this season of the year the health message contained in Prof. M. E. Olsen's recent book, "Out of Doors," should go far and wide.

"The sedentary tendencies of the age," he says, "are without doubt a chief cause of the physical deterioration which is so much discussed in these days. Diseases multiply among us because men's bodies are too feeble to resist them."

"The country needs a hardier and more virile type of manhood. . . . How much easier the perplexing problems of business and of everyday life can be solved when, after vigorous exercise, the blood tingles in every organ of the body, and the whole man is alive to his fingertips! . . . The outdoor man, too, has staying powers. . . . Physical bankruptcy comes not to such a man, for he works with a good reserve on hand. He is the 'man of cheerful yesterdays and calm to-morrows.'"

"As you thus cultivate a healthy outdoor spirit, and seek to encourage it in others, you will be doing something to stem the tide of physical deterioration, and to build up a nation pure, strong, and virile, loving freedom, powerful in defense of the right, and beautiful in its manhood and womanhood."

The invigorating, health-imparting style of this book is suggested by these paragraphs. Its chapters addressed to the young man, the young woman, the fathers and the mothers, are intensely interesting and practical. Unconsciously you get an inspiration to cultivate health by enjoying a more liberal amount of fresh air and communion with nature in God's great out-of-doors. This volume contains about a hundred pages, and is bound in handsome green cloth. Price sixty cents. Address your tract society, or if address is unknown, this office.

Recently there appeared in the Signs of the Times Magazine a series of articles on the Sabbath question, by Elder H. W. Cottrell. These went so thoroly into the subject from all standpoints, and were so logical in their presentation of Scriptural, historical, and prophetic data concerning the Sabbath, that a tract embodying the studies was really demanded. This tract has been published, and is entitled "The Christian Sabbath," Bible Students' Library, No. 205. Briefly, the outline of study is as follows:

1. Scriptural, Historical, and Prophetical View of the Definite Seventh Day. a. Made When, and by Whom, and for Whom. b. Christ and the Sabbath. c. Christ Its Lord. d. The Day and Purpose of the Sabbath. e. Paul's Faith and Practise. f. No Loss of Time on a Round World. 2. The First Day of the Week. a. Each Instance Mentioned in the Bible. 3. The Attempt to Change the Sabbath. a. Who Made It? b. Did Christ Change the Sabbath? c. If Not the Father nor the Son, Who? 4. The Restoration of the Bible Sabbath.

You will find this an excellent tract to include in your own study, and in your work to assist others. There are twenty-five in a package, and the price per package is 75 cents, post-paid. On an order for less than ten cents worth, please add two cents for postage. Order of your tract society.