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physician there would have his patients believe that his judgment is
perfect, even as the judgment of God. Yet he often fails. He exalts
himself as God and fails to exalt the Lord as the only dependence.
Those who have no trust or confidence in God, and who can see no
beauty in holiness or in the cross-bearing life of the Christian, can
receive more benefit at-----than at any other health institution in the
United States. The great secret of the success at this place is in the
control which the managers have over the minds of their patients.
I saw that my husband and myself could not receive as much benefit
there as could those of different experience and faith. Said the angel:
“God has not designed that the mind of His servant, whom He has
chosen for a special purpose, to do a special work, should be controlled
by any living man, for that is His prerogative alone.” Angels of God
kept us while we were at-----. They were round about us, sustaining
us every hour. But the time came when we could not benefit nor be
benefited, and then the cloud of light, which had rested with us there,
moved away, and we could find rest only in leaving there and going
among the brethren in Rochester, where the cloud of light rested.
I saw that God would have us go to-----for several reasons. Our
position while there, the earnest prayers we offered, our manifest trust
in God, the cheerfulness, courage, hope, and faith with which He in-
spired us amidst our afflictions, had an influence and were a testimony
to all that the Christian has a source of strength and happiness to which
the lovers of pleasure are strangers. God gave us a place in the hearts
of all of influence at-----, and in the future as the patients now there
shall be scattered to their different homes, our labors will bring us
again to their notice, and when we are assailed, some at least will
be our defenders. Again, in going to-----, the Lord would have us
benefited by an experience which we would not obtain while at Battle
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Creek, surrounded by sympathizing brethren and sisters. We must be
separated from them, lest we lean upon them instead of leaning upon
the Lord and trusting in Him alone. Separated almost entirely from
God’s people, we were shaken from every earthly help and led to look
to God alone. In so doing we obtained an experience which we could
not have had if we had not gone to-----.
When my husband’s courage and hope began to waver, we could
not benefit anyone at that place and could not be benefited by a further
experience there. It was the will of God that my husband should not