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22 August 2008 Last Updated on 22 August 2008

Chap. 18 - Employment for Patients

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Plans should be devised for keeping patients out of doors. For those who are able to work, let some pleasant, easy employment be provided. Show them how agreeable and helpful this outdoor work is. Encourage them to breathe the fresh air. Teach them to breathe deeply, and in breathing and speaking, to exercise the abdominal muscles. This is an education that will be invaluable to them.

Exercise in the open air should be prescribed as a life-giving necessity. And for such exercises there is nothing better than the cultivation of the soil. Let patients have flower beds to care for, or work to do in the orchard or vegetable garden. As they are encouraged to leave their rooms and spend time in the open air, cultivating flowers or doing

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some other light, pleasant work, their attention will be diverted from themselves and their sufferings.--"Ministry of Healing." pages 264, 265.

 

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Daily Bible Text

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

Proverbs 16:18.

Daily Thought

“There are those who profess to serve God, while they rely upon their own efforts to obey His law, to form a right character, and secure salvation. Their hearts are not moved by any deep sense of the love of Christ, but they seek to perform the duties of the Christian life as that which God requires of them in order to gain heaven. Such religion is worth nothing.”

Steps to Christ, p. 44.