p. 9 | Disease and the Decline of the Race

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1900

Disease and the Decline of the Race

About one-fourth of the deaths occurring in Europe are due to tuberculosis, or what is commonly called consumption. In this country one death out of every seven is caused by consumption. Medical experts also tell us that cancer is greatly on the increase. There are many other diseases that are becoming more and more prevalent, and new diseases, or new forms of disease, are constantly breaking out. And this, too, when the knowledge of physicians was never so great, and when their ability to combat disease was never equaled. Sin is rapidly destroying the race, and any one ought to be able to see it.