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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1865

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By Uriah Smith

Notes by the Way. No. 2.

As the readers of the Review have now been pretty thoroughly advertised that certain Seventh-day Adventists recently left Battle Creek, for Dansville, N. Y., in quest of rest and health, they may feel anxious to hear further from the party. Our last note was written from Rochester. Detained at that place one day by a storm, and another by failing to connect with the cars, we came on to Dansville, Wednesday, the 20th inst., without further hindrance or delay. From Rochester, by rail-road to Wayland, and thence, seven miles by stage, to Dansville. Bro. White stood the journey as well as he did from Battle Creek to Rochester. The number of patients at the Cure was such that it was difficult to procure suitable rooms, and five days were spent in uncertainty, and more or less confusion before a convenient location could be obtained. This was a time of course very unfavorable to a person whose nervous system was in the condition of Bro. White's, yet he has suffered no draw-back, but on the contrary we think we see decided tokens of a more favorable circulation in his system.

Bro. and sister White were cordially welcomed by Dr. Jackson, physician-in-chief of "Our Home." Thursday, the day following our arrival, the Dr. gave our party an examination, pronouncing upon our present condition and future prospects in respect to physical health and strength. His judgment in the case of Bro. White was, that it was very fortunate for him that he was arrested in his course of toil and labor when he was; for if nature had held up even but a short time longer under the same pressure, it would have eventually given way, and in such a manner as to produce a complete wreck, for which there would have been no remedy. As it is, under proper hygienic influences, he will fully recover, regaining more than his former health and strength; but the causes which have led to this attack must for all time be avoided, and to the work of recovery, quite a length of time, perhaps six or eight months, must be devoted. There is probably no place more favorable for this work than "Our Home" at Dansville; as there is probably no place where better hygienic influences, taken as a whole, both theoretically and practically, are brought to bear upon the patients. Sister White will of course remain as long as Bro. W., and to her, also, great improvement in bodily health is promised.

Bro. Loughborough, as our readers will learn with regret, has by over-labor, especially the last summer, reduced himself to very unfavorable conditions of health. An active brain, too severely taxed, has had its influence upon the body, till it has become absolutely necessary that both should have rest together. Of this his own reports will more fully speak. In his case the Dr. pronounces a stay at "Our Home" of five or six months probably necessary. But the Editor of the Review, unfortunately for its readers, is to be let off in five or six weeks.

Monday morning, the 25th inst., a telegram was received by Bro. Loughborough requesting him to attend the funeral of Carrie, infant daughter of Bro. J. N. Andrews, of Rochester. He not being able to do so, we came in his stead. We endeavored to comfort the afflicted ones with the promise that this grim enemy who now plies his gloomy task, of cutting down our beloved ones and robbing us of our dearest treasures, is soon to be despoiled of his trophies, and he himself destroyed. "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." And while in the case of sister Andrews, this affliction is doubly severe, on account of the absence of Bro. Andrews, who is laboring in a far distant State, she being thus deprived of the arm upon which so far as all human sources of comfort are concerned, she would most naturally lean for support, yet she feels that she can lay her little one away, safe in the keeping of Him who holds the keys of death and the grave, and who has promised to bring again all such from the land of the enemy.

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Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1865.