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Testimonies for the Church Volume 6
In every city where we have a church there is need of a place where
treatment can be given. Among the homes of our church members
there are few that afford room and facilities for the proper care of the
sick. A place should be provided where treatment may be given for
common ailments. The building might be inelegant and even rude,
but it should be furnished with facilities for giving simple treatments.
These, skillfully employed, would prove a blessing not only to our
people, but to their neighbors, and might be the means of calling the
attention of many to health principles.
It is the Lord’s purpose that in every part of our world health
institutions shall be established as a branch of the gospel work. These
institutions are to be His agencies for reaching a class whom nothing
else will reach. They need not be large buildings, but should be so
arranged that effective work may be done.
Beginnings might be made in every prominent place where camp
meetings are held. Make small beginnings, and enlarge as circum-
stances may demand. Count the cost of every undertaking, that you
may be sure of being able to finish. Draw as little as possible from
the treasury. Men of faith and financial ability are needed to plan
economically. Our sanitariums must be erected with a limited outlay
of means. Buildings in which to begin the work can often be secured
at low cost.
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