Show HOW TO PREVENT SICKNESS and all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings walking in obEd obedience lence to the commandments shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones and shall lind find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge even hidden treasures and shall run and not be weary and shall walk and not faint and 1 I the lord give unto them a promise that the destroying angel shall pass by them as the ah children I 1 I 1 of israel and not slay them amen iroldo word dord ir ordo of wisdom the distressing prevalence of diphtheria aud and frequent deaths resul resulting tinz combined with other classes of lc kness that are more common and not dotso so much dreaded but yet quite often fatal caus cause 1 e intense sorrow suffering and anxiety the terrible ARRAY OF CHILDRENS GRAVES in our c cemetery and dismal multitude of others occupied by bodies that had bad not attained to ripe old age ere the owners were cut down by the grim destroyer are arc indeed heartrending to contemplate what are rethe the causes of all these premature deaths wh why y L la sit it that nearis nearly mearly one half of the human beings born die before they reach the a ae age e of five years and why do such a very small proportion live to a good old age it would be regarded as blasphemous to assert that god kills them all that manner of expression is rather forcible savoring too much of charging our heavenly father with murdering ills his children nut hut it means just the same as though we piously said sald that in his divine providence be he had bad called them hence let us banish such subterfuge and look the facts squarely in the face f ace it is recorded la in the sixth chapter of genesis that the lord said mans days shall be an hundred and twenty years we know lie he permitted emitted many in the early times to ife lie isey everal eral enal hundreds of years a and iid rid some few persons nearly a thousand years there are numerous instances through the intervening centuries and even in these degenerate lays days of people who have lived over one ant kundred hundred hundred years and such should not be exceptional nowhere in sacred writ or revelation do we find nod any ii intimation ati mation matlon that god purposed that the majority of the human family should die in early life on the contrary the evidences are innumerable that ile he designed them to 6 nill fill up the measure of their creation what then are the CAUSES OF DISEASE AND DEATH philosophers scientists theologians and physicians have wrangled over the minu minutiae tive of this problem for ages but the verdict of reason is stated in general terms that sickness Is caused by some violation of natures laws and early death is the result but what are natures laws of health they are in other words the laws of god a as s applied to our bodies therefore we have bait bitt bul but to seek in ills his written word for instruction lon ion follow that and the dictates of reason and thus learn how to preserve health or restore it some of the most important laws of health are plainly stated la in divine communications imparted to the children of israel through the great wre gre at lawgiver moses they state stale that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and designate w what tit food is best for him inculcate the observance of perfect cleanliness in person and surroundings establish essential regulations ions for marriage and sexual rela give stringent rules about avoiding contact with infectious infection things or per ordering the destruction of the former and the withdrawal of the latter from society until healed heated be sides these many other laws and regu rega lons ions are therein recorded as requisite to avert sickness ar or restore health then again inthis in this age we have been given I 1 the word of wisdom showing forth the order and will of god in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days given given for a principle with promise a adapted I 1 apted to the capacity of the weak and the weal weakest est ot at all saints who are or can be called saints this plainly informs us that strong drinks tobacco and hot drinks meaning especially ally tea and coffee arr are that wholesome herbs fruits and grains are the best articles of food for man to be used with prudence moderation and thanksgiving and that the flesh of beasts and fowls is not designed s ig n ed to be used as a common article of dally daily food but only when better food is not obtainable in times of 61 famine tamine and in tho the winter time when fresh vegetables and fruits are scarce it Is permissible to eat flesh hesh meat sparingly probably meaning a few times during the prevalence of extremely cold weather all these laws we must roust acknowledge are plain and simple simpie I 1 so that the tile wayfaring darlng faring man though a fool need not err ther therein out alas for tor the human family they are unheeded or wilfully broken continuously with the inevitable result of en entailing DISEASE AND tely IE IELY DEATH itta it la strange that mankind generally with all the thie revealed instructions and knowledge acquired by common sense and band reason should persist in practices that produce and perpetuate disease it is still more remarkable that any of the latter day saints possessing as they do uncommon reasons for observing 1 I J Jehova eho hs will should ignore the teach teachings ings of the wod word of wisdom I 1 which so plainly promises health and t 1 ho obey its prel cents as quoted in the tile opening paragraph of this letter I 1 cannot but admire the skill and patience manifested by medical men in searching out remedies for disease at the same time I 1 think their energies would be better spent it directed towards ted tes teaching chino how to prevent lc kness there are arc hundreds of honorable honora ble I 1 intelligent inen in the medical profession who themselves pro claim that if people would duly observe the simple laws of health there would be no need lon lor drugs and little employment for tor doctors surgeons might be occasionally required to dress driss dri ss wounds or set broken limbs but the injured would soon recover it their systems were not vitiated by wrong of ilfe lift I 1 will here take the liberty of quoting a few observations OF LEADING GENTLEMEN in various branches of 61 the medical profession and other eminent authorities says the rev M J L savage in nine cases out of ten men and women might fair fairly lybe be called to account accorn t for bed being I 1 sick 1 I dr T L nichols uses ilses nearly the same I 1 language ne ua ge in nine cases out of ten if people aage pie when they found themselves becoming corn ng sick would simply stop eating they would have no need of drugs 1 or doctors C E page 31 D says if any ot of us are sick except from accidents or congenital causes it is our own fault if we have dyspepsia and the endless afflictions resu resulting ting fro from 1 athis this parent of diseases it is our own fault either of ignorance or careless carelessness nebs ness prof pron alex 11 stevens at D sa said baid ii the older physicians grow the more skeptical ke they become of the virtues of medicine and the more they are disposed to trust the powers of nature says prof prot alonzo clark AI AL D in their zeal to do good goob physicians have bave done much harol harm they have hurried many to the tha grave who would have recovered if it left to nature all of our curative agents are poisons and as a consequence every dose diminishes the patients vitali vitality prof 11 G cox M D say says the fewer remedies you employ in an any 71 disease e the better foi for your jour patient I 1 says prof martin paine 31 D drug medicines do but cure one als aid ease by producing another says prof parker As we place plau more confidence in nature aud and lessin less in p partitions preparations of the apothecary apothecary mortality ta rib ril 1 ty diminishes Ily lly hygiene glene giene is of far more value in the treatment of disease than drugs 11 says prof carson water is the best diaphoretic we have says prof clark dark pure cold air is the best tonic the patient can take tase c 11 says prof barker the more simple the treatment iu in infantile diseases the better the result says prof gilman oilman hygienic treatment 1 is of far more value t than a n all drugs combined the continued application ca tion of cold water has more moru power to prevent inflammation than any other remedy john 0 guan gunn M D I 1 says 1 I have no doubt that thousands are arc killed by dosine and drugging every year instead of assisting nature by exer exercise cise proper diet etc R T trail trall al D says all history attests the fact that wherever the drug medical system prevails desolation makes its track human health declines vital stamina divinities dimini ties hes diseases become more numerous more complicated and more fatal and the human ra race cc deteriorates on the contrary wherever the hygienic medical system is adopted and there is no exception renovation denotes its progress ress and humanity improves in all the relations of its existence many other quotations of similar import might be given but the these seare are probably sufficient to substantiate the point that there is NO NEED FOR DRUGS and but little for doctors if people would but live aright however we should not find fault with the 1 antle men whose business it is to breser prescribe be for the sick people make themselves sick by overindulgence over oven indulgence in kinds or quantity ef of food and drink and the phy physicians who advocate abstinence or moderation are unpopular mankind has acquired appetites for things that are tire unwholesome and all that sick persons require of doctors is speedy relief from present suffering 9 that they may as soon as possible return to renewed in e eating and drinking like the pig returns to its wallowing in the mire sen ben sensible sible sibie advice regarding such matter matters sas us eating plain food in moderation immoderation drinking pure water only taking a sponge nata nato and other like admonitions adm are arc spurned because of their simplicity and nothing in 14 seems to satisfy the patient but nauseous medicines that creata a commotion in the sv system stein by the effort of nature to exp eap expel 1 I the poisonous elements contained in drugs drugg this Is the reason why quacks flourish everywhere patent at tent 1 l medicines are imported into uita ulta utah h by the car load and eagerly swallowed by the easily humbugged humbugger multitude who are always ailing and looking in for relief in that form rather than sA submitting mittin to natures methods of cure among the causes of sickness there tire arc none greater than ERRORS IN DIET it Is not overestimating over estimating est mating to sa sav r that about seven eighths of ail all human aliments ailments are produced by an excessive quantity or improper ity ot at food there is no danger of eating too little as the system soon poon makes its wants known but it is a very easy and common occurrence to eat too often and more than is needed the L more tasty ta the food the greater the liability pliability to overeating over eating cating it we load bur system with wrong kinds of at feodor food or with too large a quantity of proper food then theu disease is ls set up the vital organs become burdened with ithe I it the liver and kidneys become t block blocked d up the hearts action is increased the lungs get overworked the whole system has to exert itself too much to geu get rid of the waste material it accumulates in the system producing fat which 1 is 44 but ari alf an indication of disease also dyspepsia biliousness kidney complaints rheumatism heart disease fevers and the thousand ills his that flesh neth nes h is liehr to man is best fitted structurally for a vegetable diet the more flesh we consume the more disease roust must we have by means mean sofa of a proper diet we can avoid most di lis its eases cases and live out our full time it is the only universal remedy that can be guaranteed to cure the ailments which alllice us when we sin against natures laws jaws r T jf allinson L it G C P A fearful fear tu but too often unneeded unheeded evidence mcallist OVER FEEDING is manifested in the death of mere more ethan than on onci third of the human family before reaching the age of live years prom irom the hour thy baby is born until the overtaxed sy system st em succumbs to sickness or death th the tha e general practice is to stuff it constantly with mothers milk or worse food and the one is consequently subject to a continuous routine of sickness which people have come to regard ard as naturally incident to childhood rood food the mother mothers vs love for her child in many instances actually kills it she suckles or feeds it almost incessantly under the mistaken impression anat she is thereby imparting to it necessary nourishment and strength and delights in its fatness under inder the equally delusive idea that obesity ibe sity is a sign sign 11 of health if the mother lives on pro proper er food her milk is all the infant needs beens and tiring during d the first month ot of its life it should not be ulven oven the breast more than once in three hours longer intervals would most likely be better under no circumstances and at no to age should nourishment be given giten during the night if this practice is maintained with regularity and the baby cries erles you may be sure it is buncom uncomfortable fort from hoine shome other cause than hunger er the clothing may be too tight or burdensome or it may still be too fre mitie nitle lit tit I 1 fed A sip of pure water not loo loo too cold coid co id I 1 given ivan occasionally especially in warm weather is very beneficial the intervals between nursing should rhe ime c increased until at hix fix months oldia receives meals it ais als only three times daily whis this involves self denial on the part of the mother mothers who delights in nuna nurs lug u g and fondling her child but it alm aim almost 0 s t positively insures the offs immunity from sickness if it it is otherwise properly cared for the transition irom from mothers milk to other food should be made gradually after the child has teeth with which to properly masticate and the system of only three meals a day dav rigidly adhered to totally unfit unlit for tor child children ren to eat cat and sugar should be os allowed sparingly if a little littie it atle sweetening is wanted occasionally there is nochim better than honey or pure homemade home made molasses bread made anade from the tac whole wheat tresh fresh ground with a little good milk warmed warned constitutes the very best food for tor children under two years of age apples potatoes and other fruits and vegetables may way bu be more freely allowed thereafter T the u individual whose system is cloa clogged ed by over feeding is in a filthy condition no matter how clean the surface of his body may be tha the proverb cleanliness IS NEXT TO 11 is a saying that most people consider applies especially to the outward perou peron but it i it as essential c bent sent lal ial that foul matter should not nol be allowed to accumulate in the wj it is also to banish ilith filth of every kind from the dwelling house and its surroundings the natural exit for a large p proportion ro portion of f waste matter of the body is through the skin therefore the whole surface of the bo boly ly should be frequently cleansed U dally sponging boisr rubbing bing with a coarse towel and weekly plunge bath are arc essential and effina clous methods for promoting healthy action of the th eskin kin cleanliness should sh ouid by no means be confined to the person and dwelling but should extend to all things thing adjacent the closet as it is generally izelle lAlly is one of the in most Os O s t contrivances that c cm itt tit be imagined ned and |