A Message to the People of New Zealand.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 January 1912, Page 3

A Message to the People of New Zealand.

A NEW GOSPEL OF HEALTH

" WILT THOU BE MABE WHOLE."

(Mr Lloyd Jones, of Wanganui, sends

us the following article.)

I have from time to time called attetion through the Press, to a reformed system of livinp habits by which everyone could have absolute good health.

I have just completed my seventh year of reformed living and health culture, and the occasion seems opportune for again reverting to the subject. I would that 1 had the pen of some eminent writer at piy disposal, for I deem the subject of such, vast importance that 1 cannot possibly do justice to it.

There are tnany thousands of deaths in New Zealand annually. People are dving every day of the year, at ail ages, from infancy upwards. Excepjt a small proportion, who die of old age, or by accident, the bulk of these deaths are caused by Disease. Quite an army of doctors : and nurses are engaged throughout New Zealand in trying to combat Disease.

I wish to call attention to the abso lute and solemn fact that all these deaths from Disease and all the suffering "by Disease are entirely avoid-, able. People usually accept Disease as inevitable, as the visitation of God, or as one of " the ills the flesh is heir to " etc. 1 wish to say, that that view is all wrong—that Disease is not the visitation of God, and that the flesh is not heir to Disease, but is heir to Health. The great bulk of the pop^ ul at ion suffer from some form of Disease and very few have Perfect Health. And yet Perfect Health is the right of all man kind, and the only reason they r".o not have it is because of improper habits of living1. If peo < pie would learn to properly regulate their living habits all might have Perfect Health, and Disease could be abolished.

I know this -will sound a visionary sort of statement to many persons, but Ido not speak without warrant. As I said above, I have just completed sev en years of reformed living. Seven years ago 1 was in bad health, and had been more or less so for the previous tea years, always under doctors and chemists. I felt almost broken down and had little life or energy in me. Just then I learnt about ''True Scientific Living " and the " New Gospel of Health/' and commenced to apply the teachings to myself. The result is that 1 have been steadily improving in health, strength, and activity over since. I have lately passed my sixtieth birthday, and have twice walked 20 miles in a forenoon. A few ycai s ago I should have found 5 miles rather a task, in faot would not willingly have faced it. > I feel that I have better strength, activity and endurance than I ever had as a young man, and the improvement is to go on indefinitely. My principal adviser, Mr C. C. Flaskfill, of Norwich, Connecticut, is over 70, and his improvement is still going on. Readers will want to know how is it done ? Well, the new teaching is that all Disease is the result of wrong habits of living, and the first things to remedy are eating and drinking habits. The first plank in the new system is known as the " No Breakfast Plan," though a more correct doscription would bo the '• two meal plan." And here I would say, that two meals mean two—-not two, meals and three or four snacks or h mealets," In a very large number of cases this ?imple alteration of habits will effort a wonderful improvement, and will gradually bring about a state of absolute good health, especially if oamhiued with a complete fast of ouo day in eaoh week, or with a fust of two or three days or.ee a month.

Those who are seriously out of health may require to do some longer fasting. There is hope for ALL. and an absolute certainty of a euro in the lnvgo majority of casos, in faot tlio pevoent^ age of failure is o.Ntromoly small. Dr. Linda li, Hazard, author of " Fasting for the Cures of .Disease," records that out of! some thousands of cases, spread over a practise of twolvo years, she has only had fifteen deaths* What (Continued pa page -\.)