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Testimonies for the Church Volume 3
Him. He will give my husband and myself strength in our united
labor, if we do all to His glory, according to our ability and strength to
labor. You should be located where you would have a more favorable
opportunity to exercise your gift according to the ability that God has
given you. You should lean your whole weight upon God and give
Him an opportunity to teach, lead, and impress you. You feel a deep
interest in the work and cause of God, and you should look to Him for
light and guidance. He will give you light. But, as an ambassador of
Christ, you are required to be faithful, to correct wrong in meekness
and love, and your efforts will not prove unavailing.
Since my husband has recovered from his feebleness, we have
labored earnestly. We have not consulted our own ease or pleasure.
We have traveled and labored in camp meetings, and overtaxed our
strength, so that it has brought upon us debility, without the advantages
of rest. During the year 1870 we attended twelve camp meetings. In a
number of these meetings, the burden of labor rested almost wholly
upon us. We traveled from Minnesota to Maine, and to Missouri and
Kansas.
My husband and I united our efforts to improve the Health Re-
former [
Now called Good Health.
] and make it an interesting and
profitable journal, one that would be desired, not only by our people,
but by all classes. This was a severe tax upon him. He also made very
important improvements in the Review and the Instructor. He accom-
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plished the work which should have been shared by three men. And
while all this labor fell upon him in the publishing branch of the work,
the business departments at the Health Institute and the Publishing
Association required the labor of two men to relieve them of financial
embarrassment.
Unfaithful men who had been entrusted with the work at the office
and at the Institute, had, through selfishness and a lack of consecration,
placed matters in the worst possible condition. There was unsettled
business that had to be attended to. My husband stepped into the gap
and worked with all his energies. He was wearing. We could see that
he was in danger; but we could not see how he could stop, unless the
work in the office should cease. Almost every day some new perplexity
would arise, some new difficulty caused by the unfaithfulness of the
men who had taken charge of the work. His brain was taxed to the