the cause, to the work at the Health Institute and at the office of publication,
as my husband feels; you should feel that the work is yours. You cannot
do the work that God has specially qualified my husband to do, neither can
he do the work that God has specially qualified you to do. Yet both of you
together, united in harmonious labor, you in your office, and my husband
in his, can accomplish much.
The work in which we have a common interest is great; and efficient,
willing, burden-bearing laborers are few indeed. God will give you
strength, my brother, if you will move forward and wait upon Him. He
will give my husband and myself strength in our united labor, if we do all
to His glory, according to our ability and strength to labor. You should
be located where you would have a more favorable opportunity to exercise
your gift according to the ability that God has given you. You should lean
your whole weight upon God and give Him an opportunity to teach, lead,
and impress you. You feel a deep interest in the work and cause of God,
and you should look to Him for light and guidance. He will give you light.
But, as an ambassador of Christ, you are required to be faithful, to correct
wrong in meekness and love, and your efforts will not prove unavailing.
Since my husband has recovered from his feebleness, we have labored
earnestly. We have not consulted our own ease or pleasure. We have
traveled and labored in camp meetings, and overtaxed our strength, so that
it has brought upon us debility, without the advantages of rest. During
the year 1870 we attended twelve camp meetings. In a number of these
meetings, the burden of labor rested almost wholly upon us. We traveled
from Minnesota to Maine, and to Missouri and Kansas.
My husband and I united our efforts to improve the Health Reformer
[Now called Good Health.] and make it an interesting and profitable
journal, one that would be desired, not only by our people, but by all
classes. This was a severe tax upon him. He also made very important
improvements in the Review and the
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Instructor. He accomplished the work which should have been shared
by three men. And while all this labor fell upon him in the publishing
branch of the work, the business departments at the Health Institute and the
Publishing Association required the labor of two men to relieve them of
financial embarrassment.
Unfaithful men who had been entrusted with the work at the office and
at the Institute, had, through selfishness and a lack of consecration, placed
matters in the worst possible condition. There was unsettled business that
had to be attended to. My husband stepped into the gap and worked with all
his energies. He was wearing. We could see that he was in danger; but we
could not see how he could stop, unless the work in the office should cease.
Almost every day some new perplexity would arise, some new difficulty
caused by the unfaithfulness of the men who had taken charge of the work.
His brain was taxed to the utmost. But the worst perplexities are now over,
and the work is moving on prosperously.
At the General Conference my husband pleaded to be released from the
burdens upon him; but, notwithstanding his pleading, the burden of editing
the Review and the Reformer was placed upon him, with encouragement
that men who would take burdens and responsibilities would be encouraged
to settle at Battle Creek. But as yet no help has come to lift from him the
burdens of the financial work at the office.
My husband is fast wearing. We have attended the four Western camp
meetings, and our brethren are urging us to attend the Eastern meetings.
But we dare not take additional burdens upon us. When we came from the
labor of theWestern camp meetings in July, 1871, we found a large amount
of business that had been left to accumulate in my husband’s absence. We
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have seen no opportunity for rest yet. My husband must be released from
the burdens upon him. There are too many that use his brain instead of
using their own. In view of the light which God has been pleased to give
us, we plead for you, my brethren, to release my husband. I am not
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