Our Health Journals
85
Placing the Crib Too High—I learned that Elder-----had recom-
mended that the Pacific Health Journal [
The Pacific Health Journal,
sponsored by the Rural Health Retreat at St. Helena was launched in
California in 1885. In the summer of 1904, with the change of place of
publication to Washington, D. C., the name was changed to Life and
Health.
] published in the interest of the Health Retreat, be discontinued
and the Good Health [
In 1879 our pioneer health journal, The Health
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Reformer, became Good Health, with no change in publishers.
] take
its place. I hastened to respond, and said to Elder Loughborough, No,
No, there must be a coming up from the simple beginning. The Good
Health is a journal that will do its work east of the Rocky Mountains,
but will not do the work demanded in the interest of the Health Retreat
and on the Pacific Coast in its present infancy. They must have matter
that the Health Reformer started out on, and just as much better ability
as we can put into the work, but it must be monthly instead of quarterly
ere long.
The Good Health places the crib too high to meet the demands of
uninformed men and women. There must be greater simplicity and
we must make that journal a living thing, full of interesting matter to
do its work on the Pacific Coast.... The Lord would have the journal
live and it shall live; because Elder-----has ceased to edit it it shall not
die. He may criticize it as much as he pleases, as Trall criticized the
Health Reformer; nevertheless, it shall live.—
Letter 10, 1887
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Spicy, Not Prosy—While working for the Herald of Health [
pub-
lished in Australia commencing January, 1898. Later known respec-
tively as Australasian Good Health and Life and Health.
] believe in the
Lord Jesus, and seek to make the paper a success. Please make your
sentences short, for then your articles will be much more interesting....
I hope and pray that you may make the Herald of Health a living,
speaking, vital agency for good. Do not let it get prosy. Let it be
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spicy with the fragrance of pure truth. This is a savor of life unto
life.—
Letter 137, 1900
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Recipes for Health Journals—Recipes that are formed on the
old plan of preparing food are gathered up and put into our health
papers. This is not right. Only recipes for the plainest, simplest, and
most wholesome food should be put into our health journals. We
must not expect that those who all their life have indulged appetite
will understand how to prepare food that will be at once wholesome,