Chapter 98—The “Health Reformer”
The people are perishing for want of knowledge. Says the apostle:
“Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge.” After receiving
the faith of the gospel, our first work is to seek to add virtuous and
pure principles, and thus cleanse the mind and heart for the reception
of true knowledge. Disease of almost every description is pressing
upon the people, yet they seem willing to remain in ignorance of the
means of relief and the course to pursue to avoid disease.
In the establishment of the Health Institute it was the design of God
not only that knowledge might be imparted to the comparatively few
who should visit it, but that the many might be instructed as to home
treatment. The Health Reformer is the medium through which rays of
light are to shine upon the people. It should be the very best health
journal in our country. It must be adapted to the wants of the common
people, ready to answer all proper questions and fully explain the
first principles of the laws of life and how to obey them and preserve
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health. The great object to be kept in view by the publication of such
a journal should be the good of the suffering people of God. The
common people, especially those too poor to attend the Institute, must
be reached and instructed by the Health Reformer.
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