Holiday Gormandizing

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1878

Holiday Gormandizing.

THE day after Christmas will be a busy day for the doctors. We expect to have an unusual number of calls on that day; nevertheless, at the risk of losing some business by so doing we cannot let this opportunity pass without giving a fair warning to all who may come within the circle of our influence that if they transgress the laws of health on Christmas, New Year's, or other holidays, they will as certainly suffer as though the violation was committed on other days of the year. Nature's laws are never suspended for our convenience. They are always operating. If we transgress, we must suffer. There is no escape from the penalty.

How often have we seen a person suffer for months in consequence of one single imprudent indulgence at the dinner table on a holiday, or at the sumptuous table spread to tempt the guest to commit voluntary suicide at some fashionable evening party. In more than one instance death has been the speedy result of holiday gormandizing.

There are other means of enjoyment far superior and vastly more in accordance with Nature's laws which may be resorted to as a means of celebrating our national days of thanksgiving and recreation. How much better to leave gormandizing for epicures and gluttons! Let sensible people treat their stomachs reasonably on Christmas and New Year's as well as on other days. Be temperate in all things at all times. —Health Reformer.