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Testimonies for the Church Volume 1
has lived in the hot air so much that she cannot endure the exposure of
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a ride out of doors without realizing a change. Her poor health is owing
somewhat to the exclusion of air, and she has become so tender that she
cannot have air without making her sick. If she continues to indulge
this diseased imagination, she will be able to bear scarcely a breath of
air. She ought to have the windows lowered in her room all through
the day, that there may be a circulation of air. God is not pleased with
her for thus murdering herself. It is unnecessary. She has become thus
sensitive through indulging a diseased mind. Air she needs, air she
must have. She is destroying not only her own vitality, but that of her
husband and daughter, and of all who visit her. The air in her room
is decidedly impure and dead; none can have health who accustom
themselves to such an atmosphere. She has petted herself in this matter
until she cannot visit the houses of her brethren without taking cold.
For her own sake and for the sake of those around her, she must change
this; she should accustom herself to the air, increasing it a little every
day, until she can breathe the pure, vitalizing air without injury. The
surface of the skin is nearly dead, because it has no air to breathe.
Its million little mouths are closed, because they are clogged by the
impurities of the system, and for want of air. It would be presumption
to let in a free draft of air at once from out of doors, all through the
day. Let it in by degrees; change gradually. In a week she can have
the windows down two or three inches day and night.
Lungs and liver are diseased because she deprives herself of vital
air. Air is the free blessing of heaven, calculated to electrify the whole
system. Without it the system will be filled with disease and become
dormant, languid, feeble. Yet you have all been for years living with a
very limited amount of air. In thus doing, your wife drags others into
the same poisonous atmosphere with herself. None of you can possess
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clear, unclouded brains while breathing a poisonous atmosphere. Sister
C dreads to stir out to go anywhere because she must feel the change
in the atmosphere and take cold. She can yet be brought into a much
better condition of health if she rightly treats herself. Twice a week
she should take a general bath, as cool as will be agreeable, a little
cooler every time, until the skin is toned up.
She need not linger along as she does, always sick, if you will all
as a family heed the instructions given of the Lord. “He that will love
life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his