Some may have thought that when we went to Dansville and placed ourselves under the care of physicians, we had given up our faith that God would raise my husband to health in answer to prayer. But not so. While we did not feel like despising the means that God had placed in our reach for the recovery of health, we felt that God was above all, and that He who had provided remedial agencies would have us use them to assist abused nature to recover her exhausted energies. We believed that God would bless the efforts we were making in the direction of health. {LS 169.5}

Nogle kunne have tænkt at da vi tog til Dansville og underkastede os selv under lægernes (170) omsorg, havde vi opgivet vor tro på at Gud ville oprejse min mand til at blive sund, som bønnesvar. Men sådan er det ikke. Vi følte ikke at vi foragtede de midler som Gud havde sat inden for vor rækkevide for at genvinde sundheden, vi følte at Gud var hævet over det hele, og at han som havde tilvejebragt hjælpende agenter, ville at vi brugte dem som hjælp mod en mishandlet natur, der gendanner naturens udtømte kræfter. Vi troede at Gud ville velsigne de anstrengelser vi gjorde, når det gælder sundhed.