p. 360 | Spiritual Starvation by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1880

Spiritual Starvation

By Editor

FOR some time the newspapers East and West, in America and in Europe, have been calling attention to the experiment of Dr. Tanner of New York, who has just completed a scientific experiment of a forty days' fast. In commenting on this, an Eastern religious journal has the following pointed paragraph:—

“It is a very common thing for a Christian man to see how little spiritual food he can live on, especially when he is away from home on a summer vacation. More than one church-member in good and regular standing has gone at least forty days, at such a time, without eating anything to speak of in the way of soul nourishment. But somehow this does not seem to attract any such attention from the New York papers as is given daily to one poor creature who is experimenting on the verge of physical starvation. The metropolitan journals would not have room for much else if they should keep the public posted concerning all the souls who are starving themselves to death.”