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dollar of my income to advance the work.... We mean to work while
the day lasts, for the night cometh in which no man can work.—
Letter
111, 1898
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Medical Missionary Work Around Cooranbong—Sr. Sara
McEnterfer, in company with Bro. James, my farmer, has just gone to
visit Bro. C., who lives six miles from here in the bush. This brother
has embraced the truth since we came to Cooranbong....
Now news has come to us that our beloved brother has come down
with typhoid fever. Mr. Pringle is the only man in the village who
knows anything about giving treatment without drugs; but six weeks
ago he was called upon to attend Mr. B., who was also down with
typhoid. He has stayed with him night and day, and has now returned
to his home, worn out with the strain. So he cannot be depended on to
nurse Bro. C.
Sara and Bro. J. have gone up to see what the situation is. If Bro.
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C. can be moved, he must be brought within our reach, even if he has
to be carried on a litter. We cannot let him lie there and die, to leave
his wife and children to the mercy of whoever will have mercy upon
them....
March 21. Sara has just returned with the good news that Bro. C.
is much better. He was attacked, but Mr. Pringle, who was able to
visit him, found him a very different subject from Mr. B. Bro. C. is a
health reformer, and when his case was given vigorous treatment the
fever was mastered. He is weak, but is up and dressed, and is cheerful
and happy in the Lord. Sara says that the corn he is growing will help
largely to sustain his family. They have a hand mill, and grind this
corn over and over until it is fine. From this they make their bread, for
they have not money to purchase fine flour. We shall send them some
flour. This is the work that has been done in several cases. We have
just helped men to help themselves.
Bro. C. has that in him that will not allow him, if he has health, to
depend on anyone. But the man who purchased his boat has paid him
nothing, for he could not. W. C. White saw Bro. C.’s necessity, and
borrowed eight pounds from our blacksmith and loaned it to him, that
he might make a beginning. And all are glad and more than astonished
to see the beginning he has made. About twelve acres have been
declared and planted with sweet corn and field corn. The sweet corn
they will eat, and the field corn they will sell. The vegetables that have