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after the payment of debts, be refunded to stockholders in proportion
to the amount of stock each held. But one morning, in prayer at the
family altar, the Spirit of God came upon him as he was praying for
divine guidance in matters pertaining to the Institute, and he exclaimed,
while bowed upon his knees: “The Lord will vindicate every word He
has spoken through vision relative to the Health Institute, and it will
be raised from its low estate and prosper gloriously.”
From that point of time we took hold of the work in earnest and
have labored side by side for the Institute to counteract the influence of
selfish men who had brought embarrassment upon it. We have given
of our means, thus setting an example to others. We have encouraged
economy and industry on the part of all connected with the Institute and
have urged that physicians and helpers work hard for small pay until
the institute should again be fully established in the confidence of our
people. We have borne a plain testimony against the manifestation of
selfishness in anyone connected with the Institute and have counseled
and reproved wrongs. We knew that the Health Institute would not
succeed unless the blessing of the Lord rested upon it. If His blessing
attended it, the friends of the cause would have confidence that it was
the work of God and would feel safe to donate means to make it a
living enterprise, that it might be able to accomplish the design of God.
The physicians and some of the helpers went to work earnestly.
They worked hard under great discouragements. Drs. Ginley, Cham-
berlain, and Lamson worked with earnestness and energy, for small
pay, to build up this sinking institution. And, thank God, the original
debt has been removed, and large additions for the accommodation of
patients have been made and paid for. The circulation of the Health
Reformer, which lies at the very foundation of the success of the Insti-
tute, has been doubled, and it has become a live journal. Confidence in
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the Institute has been fully restored in the minds of most of our people,
and there have been as many patients at the Institute, nearly the year
round, as could well be accommodated and properly treated by our
physicians.
It is a matter of deep regret that the first managers of the Institute
should take a course to nearly overwhelm it in debt and discourage-
ment. But the financial losses which stockholders have felt and regret-
ted have been small in comparison to the labor, perplexity, and care
which my husband and I have borne without pay, and which physicians