More Health Principles-Part 2

Greetings! In today’s class, we shall discuss more about air and breathing.

The effects produced by living in close, ill-ventilated rooms are these: The system becomes weak and unhealthy, the circulation is depressed, the blood moves sluggishly through the system because it is not purified and vitalized by the pure, invigorating air of heaven. The mind becomes depressed and gloomy, while the whole system is enervated; and fevers and other acute diseases are liable to be generated. Your careful exclusion of external air and fear of free ventilation leave you to breathe the corrupt, unwholesome air which is exhaled from the lungs of those staying in these rooms, and which is poisonous, unfit for the support of life. The body becomes relaxed, the skin becomes sallow, digestion is retarded, and the system is peculiarly sensitive to the influence of cold. A slight exposure produces serious diseases. Great care should be exercised not to sit in a draft or in a cold room when weary, or when in a perspiration. You should so accustom yourself to the air that you will not be under the necessity of having the mercury higher than sixty-five degrees.” 1T 703

Those who have not had a free circulation of air in their rooms through the night generally awake feeling exhausted and feverish, and know not the cause. It was air, vital air, that the whole system required, but which it could not obtain. Upon rising in the morning, most persons would be benefited by taking a sponge bath, or, if more agreeable, a hand bath, with merely washbowl of water. This will remove impurities from the skin. Then the clothing should be removed piece by piece from the bed, and exposed to the air. The windows should be opened, the blinds fastened back, and the air allowed to circulate freely for several hours, if not all day, through the sleeping apartments. In this manner the bed and clothing will become thoroughly aired, and the impurities will be removed from the room.” CH 58

Many labor under the mistaken idea that if they have taken cold, they must carefully exclude the outside air and increase the temperature of their room until it is excessively hot. The system may be deranged, the pores closed by waste matter, and the internal organs suffering more or less inflammation, because the blood has been chilled back from the surface and thrown upon them. At this time, of all others, the lungs should not be deprived of pure, fresh air. If pure air is ever necessary, it is when any part of the system, as the lungs or stomach, is diseased. Judicious exercise would induce the blood to the surface, and thus relieve the internal organs. Brisk, yet not violent exercise in the open air, with cheerfulness of spirits, will promote the circulation, giving a healthful glow to the skin, and sending the blood, vitalized by the pure air, to the extremities.” 2T 530

In the construction of buildings, whether for public purposes or as dwellings, care should be taken to provide for good ventilation and plenty of sunlight. Churches and schoolrooms are often faulty in this respect. Neglect of proper ventilation is responsible for much of the drowsiness and dullness that destroy the effect of many a sermon and make the teacher’s work toilsome and ineffective.” MH 274

In the building of houses it is especially important to secure thorough ventilation and plenty of sunlight. Let there be a current of air and an abundance of light in every room in the house. Sleeping rooms should be so arranged as to have a free circulation of air day and night. No room is fit to be occupied as a sleeping room unless it can be thrown open daily to the air and sunshine. In most countries bedrooms need to be supplied with conveniences for heating, that they may be thoroughly warmed and dried in cold or wet weather.” MH 275

God's Gift, The Air

Now, is there anything that freer seems

Than air, the fresh, the vital, that a man

Draws in with breathings bountiful, nor dreams

Of any better bliss, because he can

Make over all his blood thereby, and feel

Once more his youth return, his muscles steel,

And life grow buoyant, part of God’s good plan!

Oh, how on plain and mountain, and by streams

That shine along their path; o’er many a field

Proud with pied flowers, or where sunrise gleams

In spangled splendors, does the rich air yield

Its balsam; yea, how hunter, pioneer,

Lover, and bard have felt that heaven was near

Because the air their spirit touched and healed!

And yet–God of the open!–look and see

The millions of Thy creatures pent within

Close places that are foul for one clean breath,

Thrilling with health, and hope, and purity;

Nature’s vast antidote for stain and sin,

Life’s sweetest medicine this side of death!

How comes it that this largess of the sky

Thy children lack of, till they droop and die?

-Richard Burton

AbundantGrab a friend and share the wealth, from what you’ve learned in the School of Health! In our next class, we shall discuss more about exercise. God bless!

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  1. Bro. K

    Peace to the brethren! Hello MOL Family, thank you for more health reform messages. Air is very important, no one can survive without it. If deprived of it we become weak, lungs strained, impurities back up in the system. That’s why it is important I’ve recently learned to have all the limbs covered, to have good circulation. If the temperature is not even, the flow of air is not properly distributed through out the body.

    Thank you for todays lesson!
    Brother K.

    • MOL Services

      Praise the Lord Brother, thank you for sharing!