Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

commandments as He requires them to do in order to be owned and approved of Himis exceedingly difficult in a popular water cure. They have to carry along with them atall times the gospel sieve and sift everything they hear, that they may choose the goodand refuse the bad.The water cure establishment at—–has been the best institution in the UnitedStates. Its managers have been doing a great and good work as far as the treatmentof disease is concerned. Yet we cannot have confidence in their religious principles.While they profess to be Christians, they recommend to their patients card playing,dancing, and attending theaters, all of which have a tendency to evil, or, to say thevery least, have the appearance of evil, and are directly contrary to the teachings ofChrist and His apostles. Conscientious Sabbathkeepers who visit these institutionsfor the purpose of regaining health cannot receive the benefit they would if they werenot obliged to keep themselves constantly guarded lest they compromise their faith,dishonor the cause of their Redeemer, and bring their own souls into bondage.I was shown that Sabbathkeepers should open a way for those of like precious faithto be benefited without their being under the necessity of expending their means atinstitutions where their faith and religious principles are endangered, and where theycan find no sympathy or union in religious matters. God in His providence directed thecourse of Dr. B to—–that he might there obtain an experience he would not otherwisehave gained, for He had a work for him to do in the health reform. As a practicingphysician he had for years been obtaining a knowledge of the human system, and Godwould now have him by precept and practice learn how to apply the blessings placedwithin the reach of man. He would have him become prepared to benefit the sick andinstruct those who do not understand how to preserve the strength490