Encourage One Another
[
The Review and Herald, August 8, 1907
.]
In the building of our sanitariums we must guard carefully against
any unnecessary extravagance in our outlay of means. It is our duty to
study simplicity. Yet there are a few places of special importance and
influence where better accommodations and more room are needed
than for sanitarium work in other places. The impression that we desire
to be left upon the minds of the patients is that of the truths we teach
rather than of the grandeur of the buildings.
We have none too many sanitariums. There is in our world a great
field for true medical missionary work. Our sanitariums are to be as
lights shining amid the moral darkness. In them the sick and suffering
are to behold the miracle-working power of Christ as revealed in the
lives of the workers. “Let your light so shine before men,” says Christ,
“that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is
in heaven.”
Matthew 5:16
. Let the lamp of light from the word of God
shine forth unmistakably.
Let everything connected with the sanitarium and its surroundings
be kept orderly and neat, that the work may stand high in the esteem
of the people, and may exert constantly an uplifting influence....
Schools Near Sanitariums
An educational work should be carried on in connection with all our
sanitariums. There is a close relation between the work of our schools
and our sanitariums, and wherever it is practicable, there are decided
advantages in having a school in close connection with a sanitarium.
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There would be in such an arrangement decided advantages to both
lines of work.
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