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Counsels on Health
My law “as the apple of thine eye.” God’s commandments, obeyed, are
“life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”
Proverbs
4:22
.
Our sanitariums are an educating power to teach the people in
these lines. Those who are taught can in turn impart to others a
knowledge of health-restoring and health-preserving principles. Thus
our sanitariums are to be an instrumentality for reaching the people,
an agency for showing them the evil of disregarding the laws of life
and health, and for teaching them how to preserve the body in the best
condition. Sanitariums are to be established in different countries that
are entered by our missionaries, and are to be centers from which a
work of healing, restoring, and educating shall be carried on.
We are to labor both for the health of the body and for the saving
of the soul. Our mission is the same as that of our Master, of whom
it is written that He went about doing good and healing all who were
oppressed by Satan.
Acts 10:38
. Of His own work He says: “The
Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord hath anointed Me
to preach good tidings unto the meek.” “He hath sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.”
Isaiah 61:1
;
Luke 4:18
. As we follow Christ’s example of labor for the good of
others, we shall awaken their interest in the God whom we love and
serve.
Memorials for God
Our sanitariums in all their departments should be memorials for
God, His instrumentalities for sowing the seeds of truth in human
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hearts. This they will be if rightly conducted.
The living truth of God is to be made known in our medical insti-
tutions. Many persons who come to them are hungering and thirsting
for truth, and when it is rightly presented they will received it with
gladness. Our sanitariums have been the means of elevating the truth
for this time and bringing it before thousands. The religious influence
that pervades these institutions inspires the guests with confidence.
The assurance that the Lord presides there, and the many prayers of-
fered for the sick, make an impression upon their hearts. Many who
have never before thought of the value of the soul are convicted by