Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

correct. The leading physician there would have his patients believe that his judgmentis perfect, even as the judgment of God. Yet he often fails. He exalts himself asGod and fails to exalt the Lord as the only dependence. Those who have no trust orconfidence in God, and who can see no beauty in holiness or in the cross-bearing lifeof the Christian, can receive more benefit at—–than at any other health institution inthe United States. The great secret of the success at this place is in the control whichthe managers have over the minds of their patients.I saw that my husband and myself could not receive as much benefit there as couldthose of different experience and faith. Said the angel: “God has not designed that themind of His servant, whom He has chosen for a special purpose, to do a special work,should be controlled by any living man, for that is His prerogative alone.” Angels ofGod kept us while we were at—–. They were round about us, sustaining us everyhour. But the time came when we could not benefit nor be benefited, and then thecloud of light, which had rested with us there, moved away, and we could find restonly in leaving there and going among the brethren in Rochester, where the cloud oflight rested.I saw that God would have us go to—–for several reasons. Our position while there,the earnest prayers we offered, our manifest trust in God, the cheerfulness, courage,hope, and faith with which He inspired us amidst our afflictions, had an influence andwere a testimony to all that the Christian has a source of strength and happiness towhich the lovers of pleasure are strangers. God gave us a place in the hearts of allof influence at—–, and in the future as the patients now there shall be scattered totheir different homes, our labors will bring us again to their notice, and when we areassailed, some at least will be our defenders. Again, in going to—–, the Lord wouldhave us benefited by an experience which we would not616