Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

watched with the tenderest care to supply all our wants. Our prayers were frequentthat the Lord would bless them in basket and in store, in health as well as in graceand spiritual strength. And I felt that a special blessing would follow them. Thoughsickness has since come into their dwelling, yet I learn by Brother Root that they nowenjoy better health than before. And among the items of temporal prosperity he reportsthat his wheat fields have produced twenty-seven bushels to the acre, and some forty,while the average yield of his neighbors’ fields has been only seven bushels per acre.January 29, 1867, we left Wright, and rode to Greenville, Montcalm County, adistance of forty miles. It was the most severely cold day of the winter, and we wereglad to find a shelter from the cold and storm at Brother Maynard’s. This dear familywelcomed us to their hearts and to their home. We remained in this vicinity six weeks,laboring with the churches at Greenville and Orleans, and making Brother Maynard’shospitable home our headquarters.The Lord gave me freedom in speaking to the people; in every effort made I realizedHis sustaining power. And as I became fully convinced that I had a testimony for thepeople, which I could bear to them in connection with the labors of my husband, myfaith was strengthened that he would yet be raised to health to labor with acceptance inthe cause and work of God. His labors were received by the people, and he was a greathelp to me in the work. Without him I could accomplish but little, but with his help, inthe strength of God, I could do the work assigned me. The Lord sustained him in everyeffort which he put forth. As he ventured, trusting in God, regardless of his feebleness,he gained in strength and improved with every effort. As I realized that my husbandwas regaining physical and mental vigor, my gratitude was unbounded in view of theprospect that I should again be575