p. 15 | Cleanliness

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 13, 1865

Cleanliness

CLEANLINESS.—It is of less consequence to people to know how this moisture escapes, than to know the fact that it does so, and to know also that if this constant perspiration—for that is its name—is checked for any considerable time, mischief, in the form of colds, fevers, rheumatisms, and consumptions, may ensue. Great mischief may also follow, if this perspiration is checked by neglect of cleanliness.

There are, also, other offices performed by the skin, which are curious, but I will mention no more of them now. The more you understand the structure of this part of the frame, the more you will see how important it is that it should be kept clean by washing, every day we live. And yet how many there are, who hardly wash at all, except, perhaps, their faces and hands! Such persons are scarcely fit to be entrusted with a habitation so fearfully and wonderfully made. In truth, they are not usually so long entrusted with it as others. The great Architect usually turns them out many years earlier than he would, if they took care of it; and in the case of cholera or malignant fever, sometimes thrusts them out with apparent, though deserved violence.—Herald of Health.