Is Your Foot on the Sabbath?
By Editor
Another Testimony to Vegetarianism.—A daily paper comes to us with a column-long, two column wide article against vegetarianism. Of course the editorial writer knows nothing about it, and shows that he knows nothing about it. One of the apparent testimonies against vegetarianism is that many of its devotees are not in the best of health. Most of them were brought there by a life of flesh-eating. They followed that until they were brought about as near to their graves as humanity could be, before deciding to adopt vegetarianism. They are not yet good vegetarian specimens; they have had too many years of flesh-eating behind it. If one wants to find good vegetarian specimens he wants to go among vegetarian children, those who have lived the vegetarian life, and who have during their young years of existence built up a constitution without eating flesh. Just recently Mr. Eugene Christian gave a vegetarian dinner in his emporium in New York. Among his guests was his excellency, Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese ambassador. Mr. Wu Ting Fang declared that for the past two years he had been on a non-flesh diet and during this time had used neither tea, coffee, nor liquors. He also thinks that if he had begun this ten years ago, he would have had no gray hairs in his head at the present time. Just recently we stated in a note on the testimony of Admiral Evans' daughter that the admiral was always benefited by a vegetarian diet, and the cutting off of flesh meats. And now the Chinese ambassador tells us that he cured himself of sciatica by the same means. These are facts that are worthy of note. From the Passenger Department of the Southern Pacific Railway, a very neat booklet has come to us, entitled "The Sacramento Valley of California," by A. J. Wells. Some of the very best fruit lands of the state are found in the mountain countries which belong to the Sacramento basin. The productiveness of the valley is described, with a good map of the territory, and many illustrations of the places of interest, and the fruitfulness of the soil. A good outline map is also given of the Western States. This little booklet of nearly a hundred pages can be obtained by addressing Mr. Chas. S. Fee, Passenger Traffic Manager, Southern Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. We have received a little booklet of poems by one of our esteemed subscribers, now a very aged lady, Mrs. Susan Birdsall Roberts, of Elmira, N. Y. Mrs. Roberts was for many years a contributor to The Evangelist, the great Presbyterian paper, formerly published in New York. Of later years she has learned to love the coming of the Lord, and His Sabbath. Now in her old age, with all her relatives gone before, she still retains her sweet Christian spirit, uncomplaining, rejoicing in the blessed hope. There is no price placed upon the little volume. One can learn of this by addressing Mrs. Roberts at Elmira, N. Y. Is Your Foot on the Sabbath?
In Isa. 58: 13 the Lord thus speaks to His people: "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words"—and then follow God's promises of rich inheritance to His returning people. Verse 14. Do you not wish to inherit these promises? Is your foot on the Sabbath of the Lord? Would it not be well to honor the Lord by doing as He says?