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sick need, and God will crown with success your efforts to provide
these remedies for the sick ones who come to the sanitarium. By hap-
piness and cheerfulness and expressions of sympathy and hopefulness
for others, your own soul will be filled with light and peace. And never
forget that the sunshine of God’s blessing is worth everything to us.
Teach nurses and patients the value of those health-restoring agen-
cies that are freely provided by God, and the usefulness of simple
things that are easily obtained.
I will tell you a little about my experience with charcoal as a
remedy. For some forms of indigestion, it is more efficacious than
drugs. A little olive oil into which some of this powder has been stirred
tends to cleanse and heal. I find it is excellent. Pulverized charcoal
from eucalyptus wood we have used freely in cases of inflammation....
Always study and teach the use of the simplest remedies, and the
special blessing of the Lord may be expected to follow the use of these
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means which are within the reach of the common people.—
Letter 100,
1903
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Other Experiences With Charcoal
A Rapid Recovery—A brother was taken sick with inflammation
of the bowels and bloody dysentery. The man was not a careful health
reformer, but indulged his appetite. We were just preparing to leave
Texas, where we had been laboring for several months, and we had
carriages prepared to take away this brother and his family, and several
others who were suffering from malarial fever. My husband and I
thought we would stand this expense rather than have the heads of
several families die and leave their wives and children unprovided for.
Two or three were taken in a large spring wagon on spring mat-
tresses. But this man who was suffering from inflammation of the
bowels, sent for me to come to him. My husband and I decided that it
would not do to move him. Fears were entertained that mortification
had set in. Then the thought came to me like a communication from
the Lord to take pulverized charcoal, put water upon it, and give this
water to the sick man to drink, putting bandages of the charcoal over
the bowels and stomach. We were about one mile from the city of
Denison, but the sick man’s son went to a blacksmith’s shop, secured
the charcoal, and pulverized it, and then used it according to the direc-