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Medical Ministry
in easy access to the cities, suitable for small training schools for
workers, and where facilities may also be provided for treating
the sick and weary souls who know not the truth. Look for such
places just out from the large cities, where suitable buildings may be
secured, either as gift from the owners, or purchased at a reasonable
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price by the gifts of our people. Do not erect buildings in the noisy
cities.
Securing of Buildings
In every city where the truth is proclaimed, churches are to be
raised up. In some large cities there must be churches in various
parts of the city. In some places, meetinghouses will be offered for
sale at reasonable rates, which can be purchased advantageously. In
some important places there will be offered for sale properties that
are especially suitable for sanitarium work. The advantages of these
should be carefully considered.
In order that some of these places may be secured for our work, it
will be necessary carefully to husband the resources, no extravagant
outlay being made in any one place. The very simplicity of the
buildings that we use will be a lesson in harmony with the truths we
have to present. For our sanitarium work we must secure buildings
whose appearance and arrangement will be a demonstration of health
principles.
Location of Workers
It will be a great advantage to have our buildings in retired
locations so far as possible. The healthfulness of the surroundings
should be fully considered. Locations should be selected a little
out from the noisy cities. Those who labor in the large cities need
special advantages, that they may not be called to sacrifice life or
health unnecessarily.
I write these things because it has been presented to me as a
matter of importance that our workers should so far as possible avoid
everything that would imperil their health. We need to exercise the
best of judgment in these matters. Feeble or aged men and women
should not be sent to labor in unhealthful, crowded cities. Let them