Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

cause generally, the sooner the better. Had matters been moving in a wrong direction,to the injury of precious souls and the cause generally, the sooner this could be checked,and they be properly directed the better. The further the advance, the greater the ruin,the greater the reaction, and the greater the general discouragement. The misdirectedwork must have such a check; there must be time to correct errors and start again inthe right direction.The good work wrought for the church at Battle Creek last fall, the thorough reformand turning to the Lord by physicians, helpers, and managers at the Health Institute,and the general agreement of our brethren and sisters in all parts of the field relative tothe great object of the Health Institute and the manner it should be conducted, to whichis added the varied experience of more than one year, not only in the wrong course,but also in a right direction, give me more confidence that the health reform and theHealth Institute will prove a success than I ever had before. I still fondly hope to seethe Health Institute at Battle Creek prospering and in every respect the institute shownme. But it will take time to fully correct and outgrow the errors of the past. With theblessing of God this can and will be done.The brethren who have stood at the head of this work have appealed to our peoplefor means, on the ground that the health reform is a part of the great work connectedwith the third angel’s message. In this they have been right. It is a branch of thegreat, charitable, liberal, sacrificing, benevolent work of God. Then why shouldthese brethren say: “Stock in the Health Institute will pay a large per cent,” “it is agood investment,” “a paying thing”? Why not as well talk of stock in the PublishingAssociation paying a large per cent? If these are two branches of the same great,closing work of preparation for the coming of the Son of man, why not? Or why635