Prophet Thiel has a post up today quoting HWA's writings on radiant health. Thiel did not give a reason for his post today but given the rampant health issues in the Living Church of God it might by a cry for members to wake up.
Quoting Herbert Armstrong as a pillar of radiant health is pretty hypocritical consider the enormous amount of medicine he was on in his latter years. The day HWA died an entire suitcase of medicine was taken to the amphitheater on campus to be burned so that people would not see what he was taking.
Cancer is rampant in the LCG and in Armstrongism, especially in the people associated with the leadership positions.
But never fear! HWA has the answer to a radiant healthy life! Rub yourself down with a towel!
Circulation can be induced without over-exertion or danger. I have
never forgotten a lecture I heard as a young man in the days of the
Chautauqua. The lecturer had been physical trainer to President Howard
Taft. Immediately following the close of the Taft administration, this
physical trainer managed to secure a list of all—or nearly all—of the
centenarians in the United States. He personally visited every one. He
asked to what they attributed their long life. One never used tobacco,
and gave that as the reason. But another used tobacco all his life and
still lived past a hundred years. One “tee-totaled”—but another drank
beer and brandy all his life. And so it went. When he had interviewed
them all, he analyzed his notes and was surprised to learn that ONLY ONE THING
was common to them all. Yet not one gave it credit for his long life.
Every one had taken a vigorous daily rub-down. Some with a bath towel,
following a daily bath. Some with a brush But in one way or another,
each had stimulated blood circulation even to the extremities of toes
and fingers by daily rubbing or massaging.
Many ask how I (now in my nineties) keep up the energy, vigor and
drive. I’m sure there is more than one reason—but I do not “jog” or go
in for fads. I WALK—the best exercise for one of my age. But ever since I heard that lecture, perhaps 60 or more years ago, I have taken a daily RUB-DOWN.
Method? A generous-size bath towel, following a daily shower. I try to
get enough sleep. I watch elimination (very important). I try to be
careful about my diet. And I have a tremendous INCENTIVE—a driving PURPOSE in life, because I have learned what is life’s PURPOSE. That spurs to action! I have a mission to accomplish that is more important than my life. There’s not much time left—and it MUST and WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED! Besides all this I draw on a greater and higher Power. I think that gives the answer.
