God’s Design in Our Sanitariums
Every institution established by Seventh-day Adventists is to be to
the world what Joseph was in Egypt and what Daniel and his fellows
were in Babylon. As in the providence of God these chosen ones
were taken captive, it was to carry to heathen nations the blessings
that come to humanity through a knowledge of God. They were to
be representatives of Jehovah. They were never to compromise with
idolaters; their religious faith and their name as worshipers of the
living God they were to bear as a special honor.
And this they did. In prosperity and adversity they honored God,
and God honored them.
Called from a dungeon, a servant of captives, a prey of ingrati-
tude and malice, Joseph proved true to his allegiance to the God of
heaven. And all Egypt marveled at the wisdom of the man whom God
instructed. Pharaoh made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his
substance: to bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
wisdom.”
Psalm 105:21, 22
. Not to the people of Egypt alone, but to
all the nations connected with that powerful kingdom, God manifested
Himself through Joseph. He desired to make him a light bearer to all
peoples, and He placed him next the throne of the world’s greatest
empire, that the heavenly illumination might extend far and near. By
his wisdom and justice, by the purity and benevolence of his daily
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life, by his devotion to the interests of the people,—and that people
a nation of idolaters,—Joseph was a representative of Christ. In their
benefactor, to whom all Egypt turned with gratitude and praise, that
heathen people, and through them all the nations with which they were
connected, were to behold the love of their Creator and Redeemer.
So in Daniel God placed a light beside the throne of the world’s
greatest kingdom, that all who would might learn of the true and living
God. At the court of Babylon were gathered representatives from
all lands, men of the choicest talents, men the most richly endowed
with natural gifts and possessed of the highest culture this world could
bestow; yet amid them all the Hebrew captives were without a peer. In
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