Untitled article by L. B. HOYT

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, March 3, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 12

From Sister Hoyt.

By L. B. HOYT

BRO. SMITH:— Feeling that the health reform has done much for me, I will write a few lines for the Review, hoping it may benefit some one.

A little more than a year ago, I became convinced that Saturday was the true Sabbath, and commenced keeping it. I had had the dyspepsia for six or seven years, and commenced living out the health reform. Up to this time for the previous three years almost everything I ate hurt me, and my nights were a terror to me. I would go to bed, but could sleep only a few minutes at a time, being so nervous that I would start, turn over, and jump in my sleep at the least noise.

My stomach and head seemed to be out of order most all the time. I would eat from three to five times a day, and still be hungry a good share of the time. I had concluded that my time for this world was short; but for the last year I have been gaining. I eat no meat nor grease of any kind, and am seldom hungry except at meals. I go to bed to sleep and rest instead of spending restless nights.

Last year at this time I could write or read but little; now I can read from morning, till night, and a good share of the evening. I believe it has saved my life for a while here, and I want to so live and keep all of God's laws that I may be saved in the world to come. I feel like saying, with the Psalmist, "When I said, My foot slippeth: thy mercy, O Lord, hold me up;" and I am trying in my poor, unworthy way to live for the kingdom. I would ask the prayers of all God's people, that I may be an overcomer.

L. B. HOYT. Howard Co., Iowa.