Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

Brethren abroad, are you asleep to this matter? Must your hearts be made faint bythe fall of another of God’s workmen, whom you love? These men are the property ofthe church. Will you suffer them to die under the burdens? I appeal to you to advisea different order of things. I pray God that the bitter experience that has come uponus may never be allowed to come to any one of the brethren in the office. Especiallydo I commend Brother C to your care. Shall he die for want of air, the vitalizingair of heaven? The course he is pursuing is really shortening his life. Through hisconfinement indoors his blood is becoming foul and sluggish, the liver is deranged,the action of the heart is not right. Unless he works a change for himself, nature willtake the work into her own hands. She will make a grand attempt to relieve the systemby expelling the impurities from the blood. She will summon all the vital powers towork, and the whole organism will be deranged, and all this may end in paralysis orapoplexy. If he should ever recover from this crisis, his loss of time would be great; butthe probabilities of recovery are very small. If Brother C cannot be aroused, I adviseyou, brethren, who have an interest in the cause of present truth, to take him, as Lutherwas taken by his friends, and carry him away from his work.Since writing the above, I learn that most of Thoughts on the Revelation, waswritten in the night, after the author’s day’s work was done. This was the coursewhich my husband pursued; I protest against such suicide. The brethren whom I havementioned, who are so closely confined in the office, would be serving the cause ofGod by attending meetings and taking periods of recreation. They would be preservingphysical health and mental strength in the best condition to devote to the work. Theyshould not be left to feel crippled because they are not earning wages. Their wagesshould go on and they be free. They are doing a great work.520