Duties and Privileges of Sanitarium Workers
[
Testimonies for the Church 4:554-562
(1881).]
The management of so large and important an institution as the
sanitarium necessarily involves great responsibility, both in temporal
and spiritual matters. It is of the highest importance that this asylum
for those who are diseased in body and mind shall be such that Jesus,
the Mighty Healer, can preside among them, and all that is done may
be under the control of His Spirit. All connected with this institution
should qualify themselves for the faithful discharge of their God-
given responsibilities. They should attend to every little duty with as
much fidelity as to matters of greater importance. All should study
prayerfully how they can themselves become most useful and make
this retreat for the sick a grand success.
We do not realize with what anxiety patients with their various
diseases come to the sanitarium, all desiring help, but some doubtful
and distrusting, while others are more confident that they shall be
relieved. Those who have not visited the institution are watching with
interest every indication of the principles which are cherished by its
managers.
All who profess to be children of God should unceasingly bear in
mind that they are missionaries, in their labors brought in connection
with all classes of minds. There will be the refined and the coarse, the
humble and the proud, the religious and the skeptical, the confiding
and the suspicious, the liberal and the avaricious, the pure and the
corrupt, the educated and the ignorant, the rich and the poor; in fact,
almost every grade of character and condition will be found among
the patients at the sanitarium. Those who come to this asylum come
because they need help; and thus, whatever their station or condition,
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they acknowledge that they are not able to help themselves. These
varied minds cannot be treated alike; yet all, whether they are rich or
poor, high or low, dependent or independent, need kindness, sympathy,
and love. By mutual contact, our minds should receive polish and re-
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