Flesh-Eating and Rheumatism
By Editor
It is quite easy to commend ourselves when we compare our "virtues" with the "faults" of our neighbors. But this is "not wise." 2 Cor. 10:12. We are to "examine ourselves," but ever to see whether we "be in the faith." 2 Cor. 12:5. Righteousness and life come by faith. The normal, moral, aspiring man never satisfies himself. Whenever inclined to scrutinize critically his motives, he can ever find enough to condemn, even at his best. What must he be then in God's sight? And how hopeless is his own case in developing a righteous character within himself! How glad such a one ought to be to embrace the Gospel which is "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth"! Flesh-Eating and Rheumatism.
We are sure that all our readers, especially in the West, have greatly sympathized with Rear-Admiral Evans in his sufferings from rheumatism. It is worth while to note the cause as given by his daughter in an interview with a newspaper man. She said: "My father is in pretty good health ashore; it is when he goes to sea that his rheumatism returns. Several years ago, Dr. Haigh, of London, prescribed a strict diet for the Admiral. He was not allowed to eat meat or fish, and was to take all the fresh vegetables that he could devour. At sea the milk and vegetable supply soon gives out, and then his sickness returns." It has been observed by many intelligent, progressive physicians that one of the great causes of rheumatism, gout, and kindred diseases, is a meat diet. The system becomes clogged with poisons in the meat, or germinated by the meat diet. Practically all cases of ptomain poisoning are resultants from meat diet. How many rheumatic sufferers will heed the lesson? Personally we are glad that Admiral Evans has retired, and it is to be hoped that he may have return of speedy health when he can resume a normal diet. Man wasn't made to gorge himself with flesh. His original diet was fruits and grains. It has been intimated that the Andover Theological Seminary is to be made a part of the University at Cambridge. The Andover Seminary has been considered a center of orthodoxy. The theology of Harvard is decidedly Unitarian. Christ is looked upon as a superior man, but not as a divine helper. Zion's Herald declares (we quote from the Literary Digest of April 4) that "the most unworthy and grievous feature of this betrayal is the dishonor put upon our Lord and Master, the Son of God. If Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School have stood, and now stand, for any one theological negation, it is an avowed disbelief in the Deity of Jesus Christ. There is no use beating about the bush. Every sensible, reasoning person knows that in removing Andover Seminary to Cambridge and incorporating it with Harvard, this fundamental natural truth concerning Jesus is abandoned." And yet according to the drift of the New Theology, this is just what we may expect. It is only doing on a little more general scale what is being done continually thru individuals that are preaching in the orthodox denominations.