Chapter 15—The Health Institute
The great work of reform must go forward. The Health Institute
has been established at Battle Creek to relieve the afflicted, to dis-
seminate light, to awaken the spirit of inquiry, and to advance reform.
This institution is conducted upon principles which are different from
those of any other hygienic institution in the land. Money is not the
great object with its friends and conductors. They conduct it from a
conscientious, religious standpoint, aiming to carry out the principles
of Bible hygiene. Most institutions of the kind are established upon
different principles and are conservative, making it their object to meet
the popular class halfway and to so shape their course that they will
receive the greatest patronage and the most money.
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The Health Institute at Battle Creek is established upon firm re-
ligious principles. Its conductors acknowledge God as the real pro-
prietor. Physicians and helpers look to Him for guidance, and aim to
move conscientiously, in His fear. For this reason it stands upon a sure
basis. When feeble, suffering invalids learn in regard to the principles
of the directors, superintendent, physicians, and helpers at the Institute
that they have the fear of God before them, they will feel safer there
than at popular institutions.
If those connected with the Health Institute at Battle Creek should
descend from the pure, exalted principles of Bible truth to imitate the
theories and practices of those at the head of other institutions, where
only the diseases of invalids are treated, and that merely for money,
the conductors not working from a high, religious standpoint, God’s
special blessing would not rest upon the Institute. This institution is
designed of God to be one of the greatest aids in preparing a people
to be perfect before God. In order to attain to this perfection, men
and women must have physical and mental strength to appreciate the
elevated truths of God’s word and be brought into a position where
they will discern the imperfections in their moral characters. They
should be in earnest to reform, that they may have friendship with God.
The religion of Christ is not to be placed in the background and its
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