p. 29 | DISEASED CHURCH-MEMBERS by R. M. Kilgore

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

DISEASED CHURCH-MEMBERS.

By R. M. Kilgore

Notwithstanding quack doctors and venders of patent medicines are multiplied, diseases of all kinds multiply faster than the doctors. But there are none so dangerous, and none that prove so unmanageable and fatal, as the epidemic among church-members. Delays are dangerous; and should the disease become seated, the result is generally death. The very first symptoms should be attacked, and the patient put under a thorough course of treatment, as the disease very soon takes on the chronic form. The following are some of its more general symptoms, and the most satisfactory manner of treatment, though additional remedies might be applied.

SYMPTOMS.

Losing a relish for John 5:39; the pulse waning to Col. 4:2; a craving for 1 John, 2:16, causing dullness and sleepiness during the sermon; a fear of damp, hot, and cold weather; a nausea at Acts, 12:12; an indifference for Heb. 10:25; loss of memory of Ex. 20:8; Sabbath sickness; a coldness toward John 13:34; an occasional breaking out near 2 Pet. 2:10; pulse rising to 2 Thes. 3:11; feverish with 1 Tim. 5:13; circulation active at Prov. 6:16-19; evident signs of 1 Cor. 3:3; becomes chronic at Gal. 5:19-21; and incurable with Heb. 6:4-6.

TREATMENT.

Take a double quantity of John 3:3; increase the dose with Matt. 18:3; mix it well with 1 Pet. 5:6; boil it down in equal quantities of 1 Pet. 2:1-3, and Eph. 4:21-25; while boiling stir in ample proportions of 1 John 3:10, Rom. 12:9, 10, 1 Pet. 1:22, and 1 Cor. 1:10. If this should get cold, it will lose its strength; therefore it must always be taken hot every day with Col. 3:12-15, and Eph. 4:31, 32. Each morning take a good draught of 2 Cor. 13:5, in Matt. 6:6, carefully adding verses 12, 14, 15. Just before breakfast let the whole family join together in Jer. 10:23-25, and before retiring digest well Matt. 18, and repeat the morning dose. “Before taking” you can see Jer. 17:9. “After taking” with Ps. 51, and Rom. 3:24, 25, you will see Ezek. 36:26, Heb. 8:10, and Isa. 57:15. No fears need be entertained of taking too large doses. If constant inward applications be made, the effects are verified in Rom. 14:17, and Phil. 4:7, working outwardly in Gal. 5:22-26, and 1 Tim. 6:18, 19. Try it; apply it.

R. M. KILGORE.