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All should consider that God’s claims upon them are paramount to
all others. God has given to every person capabilities to improve, that
he may reflect glory to the Giver. Everyday some progress should be
made. If the workers leave the sanitarium as they entered it, without
making decided improvement, gaining in knowledge and spiritual
strength, they have met with loss. God designs that Christians shall
grow continually, grow up unto the full stature of men and women in
Christ. All who do not grow stronger, and become more firmly rooted
and grounded in the truth, are continually retrograding.
A special effort should be made to secure the services of conscien-
tious, Christian workers. It is the purpose of God that a health institu-
tion should be organized and controlled exclusively by Seventh-day
Adventists; and when unbelievers are brought in to occupy responsible
positions, an influence is presiding there that will tell with great weight
against the sanitarium. God did not intend that this institution should
be carried on after the order of any other health institute in the land,
but that it should be one of the most effectual instrumentalities in His
hands of giving light to the world. It should stand forth with scientific
ability, with moral and spiritual power, and as a faithful sentinel of
reform in all its bearings; and all who act a part in it should be reform-
ers, having respect to its rules, and heeding the light of health reform
now shining upon us as a people.
All can be a blessing to others if they will place themselves where
they will correctly represent the religion of Jesus Christ. But there has
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been greater anxiety to make the outward appearance in every way
presentable that it may meet the minds of worldly patients, than to
maintain a living connection with heaven, to watch and pray, that this
instrumentality of God may be wholly successful in doing good to the
bodies and also to the souls of men.
What can be said, and what can be done, to awaken conviction
in the hearts of all connected with this important institution? How
can they be led to see and feel the danger of making wrong moves
unless they daily have a living experience in the things of God? The
physicians are in a position, where, should they exert an influence in
accordance with their faith, they would have a molding power upon
all connected with the institution. This is one of the best missionary
fields in the world, and all in responsible positions should become
acquainted with God and ever be receiving light from heaven. There