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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 30, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 18.

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To Health Seekers

By C. H. Bliss

THIS is a restless age. Money is plenty, and railroads and interurban and steamship lines encircle the globe. Rates of travel are quite reasonable, and the time has come when many run to and fro.
Curiosity, pleasure seeking, health, and financial betterment lead thousands to go from home into other countries. Just now there is a great influx of people from the North into the South. Some of these are land speculators. Many are buying farms in the delta region along the Gulf of Mexico. This land has been under water for centuries, but is now being reclaimed. It is very rich, and will in time produce large crops of early fruits and vegetables.
However, when feeble or aged persons come South to reside permanently, they generally find that they have made a mistake. Every country suffers from the curse, and it seems that the last few years we have had peculiar freaks of weather here in the South. New Orleans has just had a real snowstorm, and the cold, damp winds along the Gulf chill one through, even with the protection of a heavy overcoat. In some of our large cities in the South much of the sewerage is open, and the stench is almost intolerable in some localities. The mosquitoes breed by millions in the lakes and low, marshy lands.
The curse is seen everywhere. Fires, floods, and windstorms, destroying lives and property, are visiting localities supposed to be immune from these things. The old earth groans under the curse of sin; and go where you will, sickness, sin, and suffering exist. A change of climate may for a time prove helpful to some who are afflicted, but what a blessing it is to know that it is God who healeth all our diseases, and there is not a sparrow which falls to the ground without his notice. God is everywhere, "for in him we live, and move, and have our being." Truly we may say, "Blessed is the man that trusteth in him."
C. H. BLISS.