A Testimony of Healing and Faith
By Clara J. Birch
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I for the first time attempt to address a few lines to you through the columns of the REVIEW. More than six years ago, while seeking the society and pleasures of the world, I was stricken down by disease; and being unable to do much to occupy my mind, I would take up and read the REVIEW belonging to a friend then boarding with our family. I soon became interested in its contents, and began to read my Bible to learn for myself if these things were so. I could find no authority for the change of the Sabbath, and commenced keeping it according to the commandment. As I still farther investigated, I saw the light on other points of the Advent faith. I feel thankful to the Lord to-day for the light, and that he gave me a heart to obey and walk in it. At the opening of the Health Institute, I placed myself there for treatment, as a last resort, having tried seven different M. D.s, without avail. I was, to appearance, very near the grave, being reduced to a mere skeleton, with scarcely strength enough to walk across the room. But, thanks to the health reform, I am now able to labor considerable, and am enjoying quite a comfortable degree of health. I would recommend the Institute to the afflicted everywhere. Your unworthy sister. CLARA J. BIRCH.