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and women are led to see the importance of right habits of living, the
saving power of the truth will be made known. Every city is to be
entered by workers trained to do medical missionary work. As the right
hand of the third angel’s message, God’s methods of treating disease
will open doors for the entrance of present truth. Health literature
must be circulated in many lands. Our physicians in Europe and
other countries should awake to the necessity of having health works
prepared by men who are on the ground and who can meet the people
where they are with the most essential instruction.
The Lord will give to our sanitariums whose work is already es-
tablished an opportunity to co-operate with Him in assisting newly
established plants. Every new institution is to be regarded as a sister
helper in the great work of proclaiming the third angel’s message. God
has given our sanitariums an opportunity to set in operation a work
that will be as a stone instinct with life, growing as it is rolled by an
invisible hand. Let this mystic stone be set in motion.
The Lord has instructed me to warn those who in the future es-
tablish sanitariums in new places, to begin their work in humility,
consecrating their abilities to His service. The buildings erected are
not to be large or expensive. Small local sanitariums are to be estab-
lished in connection with our training schools. In these sanitariums
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young men and young women of ability and consecration are to be
gathered—those who will conduct themselves in the love and fear of
God, those who, when prepared for graduation, will not feel that they
know all that they need to know, but will diligently study and carefully
practice the lessons given by Christ. The righteousness of Christ will
go before such ones, and the glory of God will be their rearward.
I have been given light that in many cities it is advisable for a
restaurant to be connected with treatment rooms. The two can co-
operate in upholding right principles. In connection with these it is
sometimes advisable to have rooms that will serve as lodgings for the
sick. These establishments will serve as feeders to the sanitariums lo-
cated in the country and would better be conducted in rented buildings.
We are not to erect in the cities large buildings in which to care for
the sick, because God has plainly indicated that the sick can be better
cared for outside of the cities. In many places it will be necessary to
begin sanitarium work in the cities; but, as much as possible, this work