The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-09
LESSONS FROM
MOSAIC CODE
DR.. SanderSOn'S Lecture
on Health.
CLEANLINESS is A REQUISITE
SECRET OF THE SIMPLE LIFE OF
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
CLEANLINESS is A REQUISITE
Modern Diseases Due to an Exhaus-
ton of Vitality and Failure
to Live as the Lord
Prescribed.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

STOCKTON, June Sat the Adventist
gathering this morning DR.. A. j. Sander
son of St Helena spoke of the conditions
of health as he said were revealed in the
Mosaic sanitary code Special attention
was devoted to the principles which I'M
derlie those requirements by which the
children of Israel were distinguished from
all other nations. The principle of hav-
ing fresh food, he said is one that lies
at the foundation of perfect health, and
it is one of the principles by which the
children Of Israel maintained their life
and health Their food was only kept
over night on the sixth day-the food
prepared for the Sabbath. They cooked
their food sufficiently, the proper time,
and kept it in the proper condition. The
only meat that was allowed to be eaten
in the camp was that prepared by the
priests, eaten on the first day it was
killed, or might possibly be eaten on the
second day, but on the third day what
ever remained was to be burned. The
principle of cleanliness was also very
marked. Those who ministered in the
sanctuary were obliged TO battle daily
very frequently. They were obliged to
keep their clothes perfectly clean. When
ever the children of Israel were assem-
bled before the Lord on special occasions
one of the first requirements was that
they should wash their clothes and be
perfectly clean. Their free, open life in
the Wilderness; their camp life, with the
tents IN perfect order and the system
which characterized all of the details of
their encampment, were all designed to
educate them in the habits of careful
ness and thOrOughneSS.
Moses, not being able to enter the prom
ised land itself, and viewing the situation
unpleasant as it was, set himself about
to bring out. and to teach the people the
sanitary code, that was the best thing
that could be given them under the con-
ditions that would surround them. He
saw that leprosy would come in because
of their departing from the simple life
which they would forsake and the warm
climate of that region. The classes of dis
ease which he gave directions concerning
were comprehended under the heading of
leprosy and of what We're called issues
Under his classification all diseases from
which any discharge resulted were placed
under that head and regulations made
accordingly. The priest was to be the
physician of the people. For the curing
of disease they depended entirely upon
the simple life which they were instructed
to live. If the disease was contagious
they were to be kept by themselves.
There would be no ground for the fear
of contagious diseases which we now
have II the ordinary sanitary precautions
in general use. The only method of puri-
fication under the sanitary code of Moses
was simply washing with pure water and
exposing to the sunlight for a sufficient
air. Whatever of itself was found to be
unclean was destroyed by fire without
the camp. These fires were continually
burning.
LAS people," he continued I'VE are
not here suffering from the terrible cpl
denies which are sweeping over the So
called heather nations but we are as q
people suffering from nervous disorders
which are assuming alarming proportions.
Look at the thousands of nervous wrecks
all around you; look at the thousands of
people who are coming down with con-
sumption-not because the germs of con-
sumption are so prevalent in all the cOun-
try, but simply because the health of the
people, the resistance of the people has
been undermined and destroyed by the or
bacco, the free use of tea and coffee. of
meat the lack of confidence in God lack
of reStfulneSS in the people, the lack of
trust in the power of God are all factors
in weakening our constitutions so that
under certain climatic conditions and sur
roundings we suffer from the colds and
diseases which affect others. What is
true in being able to resist these light
epidemics and all other things from which
people suffer is also true of nervous pros
those things which weaken US as people
and weaken every individual. The Lord
wants his people to have perfect health
not because he gives them a miraculous
store of health, but because they are so
wise in understanding that they live in
health, and as a result do not suffer from
disease. Common sense should be exer-
cised in everything in life, whether in eat
ing or drinking, in working or sleeping or
are at liberty, as were the children of
Israel to enter into covenant relation
ship with God. and there shall not be a
feeble one in our midst"