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The Proposed Fasting Match

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 33.

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The Proposed Fasting Match

THE Examiner and Chronicle says: "The Tanner folly is likely to be perpetuated. A Wall street man is reported to have put up $1,000 as a prize in a fasting match, and at least five candidates have given in their names as competitors. The trial is to be superintended by Dr. Hammond, and the man that fasts the longest will be the winner. This beats the walking matches as a novelty, and the gamblers will try to make as much out of it. It is possible that people educated into the mysteries of the walking match "excitement" may squeeze something like enthusiasm out of a fasting match. But a fair average man will be apt to keep himself out of sight of so stupid and ghostly a show."