Our Southern California Sanitariums
[
The Review and Herald, June 21, 1906
.]
Physicians and ministers are to unite in an effort to lead men
and women to obey God’s commandments. They need to study the
intimate relationship existing between obedience and health. Solemn
is the responsibility resting upon medical missionaries. They are
to be missionaries in the true sense of the term. The sick and the
suffering who entrust themselves to the care of the helpers in our
medical institutions must not be disappointed. They are to be taught
how to live in harmony with heaven. As they learn to obey God’s law,
they will be richly blessed in body and in spirit.
Value of Outdoor Life
The advantage of outdoor life must never be lost sight of. How
thankful we should be that God has given us beautiful sanitarium
properties at Paradise Valley and Glendale and Loma Linda! “Out of
the cities! out of the cities!”—this has been my message for years. We
cannot expect the sick to recover rapidly when they are shut in within
four walls, in some city, with no outside view but houses, houses,
houses—nothing to animate, nothing to enliven. And yet how slow
some are to realize that the crowded cities are not favorable places for
sanitarium work!
Even in Southern California not many years ago, there were some
who favored the erection of a large sanitarium building in the heart of
Los Angeles. In the light of the instruction God had given, we could
not consent to the carrying out of any such plan. In the visions of the
night the Lord had shown me unoccupied properties in the country,
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suitable for sanitarium purposes, and for sale at a price far below the
original cost.
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