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either my husband or Brother A to deprive himself of social family
enjoyment, to divorce himself from home and family, even for the
interest of these important institutions.
During the past three or four years several have had an interest
for the Health Institute and have made efforts to place it in a better
condition. But some have lacked discernment and experience. As long
as Brother A acts an unselfish part and clings to God, He will be his
helper and his counselor.
The physicians of the Health Institute should not feel compelled to
do work that helpers can do. They should not serve in the bathroom or
in the movement room, expending their vitality in doing what others
might do. There should be no lack of helpers to nurse the sick and
to watch with the feeble ones who need watchers. The physicians
should reserve their strength for the successful performance of their
professional duties. They should tell others what to do. If there is a
want of those whom they can trust to do these things, suitable persons
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should be employed and properly instructed, and suitably remunerated
for their services.
None should be employed as laborers but those who will work
unselfishly in the interest of the Institute, and such should be well
paid for their services. There should be a sufficient force, especially
during the sickly season of summer, so that none need to overwork.
The Health Institute has overcome its embarrassments; and physicians
and helpers should not be compelled to labor as hard, and suffer such
privations, as when it was so heavily embarrassed in consequence of
unfaithful men, who managed it almost into the ground.
I was shown that the physicians at our Institute should be men and
women of faith and spirituality. They should make God their trust.
There are many who come to the Institute who have, by their own sin-
ful indulgence, brought upon themselves disease of almost every type.
This class do not deserve the sympathy that they frequently require.
And it is painful to the physicians to devote time and strength to this
class, who are debased physically, mentally, and morally. But there
is a class who have, through ignorance, lived in violation of nature’s
laws. They have worked intemperately and have eaten intemperately,
because it was the custom to do so. Some have suffered many things
from many physicians, but have not been made better, but decidedly
worse. At length they are torn from business, from society, and from