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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jan 2, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 1.

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Virginia

By Anna C. Rice

LYNCHBURG.—The past month has been a very busy one. On the eighteenth of October a woman came for me, telling me that a neighbor had been very sick since Thursday, and that three doctors had given her up, saying she could not live an hour. She desired me to go and see if I could do anything for her. I went, and found her in a dying condition, and all the doctors said to me, "It is no use for you to try to do anything;" but I immediately gave her treatments that I thought would relieve the vomiting, which had not stopped for three days and nights. Within an hour it stopped. I gave her some simple remedies to relieve other conditions, although the doctors said it would be impossible to relieve them. I stayed with her until late that night, and spent most of the next day with her, and by night she was able to take a little milk. I was there the next day until late in the afternoon,when she seemed out of danger. I then went to give a reading, and to hold a
cottage meeting at night. While I was gone neighbors did things for her that should not have been done, and she was apparently much worse again. I went to her, staying until midnight, when she seemed comfortable, then I went home. Her husband came for me again at three o'clock in the morning, and I went, and was able again to relieve her. She continued to improve, and is now well. The doctors have come to me to find out what I did. They can not understand why the woman did not die. The Lord surely added his blessing.
There is a great deal of sickness here. By going and calling on the sick, doing a little for them, and helping them to know what to do, then having prayer with them, many doors are opening before me. I have all and more than I can do. I shall strive to be faithful, and leave the results with God.
Different ones are coming to me and telling me that the bitter feelings against our people are being broken down.
ANNA C. RICE.