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may prevent sickness. We should not remain indifferent and compel
those who are sick and desirous of living out the truth to go to popular
water cure institutions for the recovery of health, where there is no
sympathy for our faith. If they recover health it may be at the expense
of their religious faith. Those who have suffered greatly from bodily
infirmities are weak both mentally and morally. As they realize the
benefit derived from the correct application of water, the right use of
air, and a proper diet, they are led to believe that the physicians who
understood how to treat them so successfully cannot be greatly at fault
in their religious faith; that as they are engaged in the great and good
work of benefiting suffering humanity, they must be nearly or quite
right. And thus our people are in danger of being ensnared through
their efforts to recover health at these establishments.
Again I was shown that those who are strongly fortified with
religious principles and are firm to obey all God’s requirements cannot
receive that benefit from the popular health institutions of the day that
others of a different faith can. Sabbathkeepers are singular in their
faith. To keep all God’s commandments as He requires them to do in
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order to be owned and approved of Him is exceedingly difficult in a
popular water cure. They have to carry along with them at all times
the gospel sieve and sift everything they hear, that they may choose
the good and refuse the bad.
The water cure establishment at-----has been the best institution
in the United States. Its managers have been doing a great and good
work as far as the treatment of disease is concerned. Yet we cannot
have confidence in their religious principles. While they profess to be
Christians, they recommend to their patients card playing, dancing, and
attending theaters, all of which have a tendency to evil, or, to say the
very least, have the appearance of evil, and are directly contrary to the
teachings of Christ and His apostles. Conscientious Sabbathkeepers
who visit these institutions for the purpose of regaining health cannot
receive the benefit they would if they were not obliged to keep them-
selves constantly guarded lest they compromise their faith, dishonor
the cause of their Redeemer, and bring their own souls into bondage.
I was shown that Sabbathkeepers should open a way for those
of like precious faith to be benefited without their being under the
necessity of expending their means at institutions where their faith
and religious principles are endangered, and where they can find no