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these institutions are established. The sick and the afflicted, coming
to our sanitariums, are brought within reach of the gospel workers
laboring there. Oh, what precious opportunities are thus offered to
sow the seeds of truth.—
Letter 213, 1902
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Presenting the Message Judiciously—Let the spiritual atmo-
sphere of these institutions be such that men and women who are
brought to the sanitariums to receive treatment for their bodily ills
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shall learn the lesson that their diseased souls need healing....
Simple, earnest talks may be given in the parlors, pointing the
sufferers to their only hope for the salvation of the soul. These religious
meetings should be short and right to the point, and they will prove
a blessing to the hearers. The word of Him who founded the world
in six days, and on the seventh “rested and was refreshed,” should be
effectively brought before the mind....
Publications containing the precious truths of the gospel should
be in the rooms of the patients, or where they can have easy access to
them. There should be a library in every sanitarium, and it should be
supplied with books containing the light of the gospel. Judicious plans
should be laid that the patients may have constant access to reading
matter that contains the light of present truth....
Let our sanitariums become what they should be—homes where
healing is ministered to sin-sick souls. And this will be done when the
workers have a living connection with the Great Healer.—
Manuscript
5, 1908
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Workers Who Can Give Spiritual Help—In our sanitariums, of
all places in the world, we need soundly converted physicians and
wise workers—men and women who will not urge their peculiar ideas
upon the sick, but who will present the truths of the Word of God in
a way that will bring comfort and encouragement and blessing to the
patients. This is the work for which our sanitariums are established—
to correctly represent the truths of the Word of God and to lead the
minds of men and women to Christ.
Let the religious services held each day be short but educational
in character. Present the Bible and its Author, the God of heaven and
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earth, and Christ the Son, the great gift of God to the world. Tell the
patients how the Saviour came to the earth to reveal the love of God
for men. Present before them His great sacrifice in thus coming here
to live and die. Let it be known that through faith in Christ every sinful