How the Work Was Started in Lindsay, Ontario
By Sadie Baker
HAVING received several letters of inquiry, we thought it would be of interest to many of the REVIEW readers to know how we started our medical work here. We have certainly enjoyed watching its development. We have had discouragements, but it sometimes seems that where everything is the most discouraging, the Lord works out the greatest success. I began work here by first visiting the ministers, telling them about my work and my purpose here, so they could not feel toward me as a thief coming down upon their flocks to destroy and scatter. Afterward I visited doctors, setting before them the principles of true living, and told them my purpose. After they saw my purpose, they sent me patients, and later encouraged me to start treatment rooms. Afterward I visited the lawyers, leaving with them some religious liberty literature; then I visited the public-school teachers, giving them some copies of the Training School Advocate. In the meantime I also visited the business men, holding Bible readings with the interested ones, and giving treatments. The first patient I had was at the hospital. She was suffering from neurasthenia. She entirely recovered. Within the two years we have organized a church of fourteen members, with four Sabbath-keepers at present who have not united with the church; and now the treatment rooms are open to receive patients. We expect soon to have a church-school. The medical work is to the church what the right arm is to the body, so we hope to see our church growing stronger right along. With this hope before us, we are of good courage. Now, in brief, this is the way the work was started, and so it grows. It pays to study the “Testimonies,” where the right plans of work are laid down, then after studying them, carry them out in the fear of the Lord. A work thus conducted will surely grow, for the Lord will give his blessing. We have rented a hall sixty-three feet by thirty-three feet, and divided it off into a bath-room and two treatment20rooms, dressing-room, reception-room, large front room, which we hope to use for a gymnasium, and a large bedroom, and a kitchen. We pay one hundred and twenty-five dollars a year rent, and the furnishings of the rooms have cost us about three hundred dollars so far. Those who had means put the money in, so we have it all paid for. We had to put in partitions, which cost us over fifty dollars, as we had rented an unfurnished hall. We are in the business part of town. We have plenty of light and air, as there are eleven windows and two skylights in the rooms. The doctors are sending us patients, and the business men have treated us with the greatest respect and courtesy. My visiting them at the first, made them feel more confidence in our work, so they let us have anything we wanted on time. It pays to follow the Lord’s directions. Praise his name. I have lived out the health reform before my patients and readers, and most of them are in harmony with it. Over a year ago we purchased a house and lot, which has been set apart as a place where we hold our services. Before buying this building we studied Exodus 35. And after studying this, the interested ones were so impressed with the plan, that they brought offerings and donations sufficient to purchase the building. Thus the Lord has blessed us, and the work has gone on as he has directed. Every member is paying tithe, for which we are thankful. We desire the prayers of all the readers of the REVIEW, that our work here may be a success. SADIE BAKER.