Position and Work of the Sanitarium
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amusements. The knowledge of God’s works and ways we can only
begin to obtain in this world; the study will be continued throughout
eternity. God has provided for man subjects of thought which will
bring into activity every faculty of the mind. We may read the character
of the Creator in the heavens above and the earth beneath, filling the
heart with gratitude and thanksgiving. Every nerve and sense will
respond to the expressions of God’s love in His marvelous works.
Satan invents earthly allurements, that the carnal mind may be placed
on those things which cannot elevate and refine and ennoble; its powers
are thus dwarfed and crippled, and men and women who might attain
to perfection of character become narrow, weak, and defective.
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God designed that the sanitarium which He had established should
stand forth as a beacon of light, of warning and reproof. He would
prove to the world that an institution conducted on religious principles
as an asylum for the sick could be sustained without sacrificing its pe-
culiar, holy character; that it could be kept free from the objectionable
features that are found in other institutions of the kind. It was to be an
instrumentality in His hand to bring about great reforms. Wrong habits
of life should be corrected, the morals elevated, the tastes changed, the
dress reformed.
Disease of every type is brought upon the body through the un-
healthful fashionable style of dress, and the fact should be made promi-
nent that a reform must take place before treatment will effect a cure.
The perverted appetite has been pampered until disease has been pro-
duced as the sure result. The crippled, dwarfed faculties and organs
cannot be strengthened and invigorated without decided reforms. And
if those connected with the sanitarium are not in every respect correct
representatives of the truths of health reform, decided reformation
must make them what they should be, or they must be separated from
the institution.
The minds of many take so low a level that God cannot work for
them or with them. The current of thought must be changed, the moral
sensibilities must be aroused to feel the claims of God. The sum and
substance of true religion is to own and continually acknowledge, by
words, by dress, by deportment, our relationship to God. Humility
should take the place of pride; sobriety, of levity; and devotion, of
irreligion and careless indifference.