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before thought of will be fastened on the mind. Many of the patients
will be led to keep the body in the most healthy condition possible,
because it is the Lord’s purchased possession....
When we have shown the people that we have right principles re-
garding health reform, we should then take up the temperance question
in all its bearings, and drive it home to the hilt.
It is to save the souls, as well as to cure the bodies, of men and
women, that at much expense our sanitariums are established. God
designs that by means of these agencies of His own planting, the rich
and the poor, the high and the low, shall find the bread of heaven and
the water of life. He designs that they shall be educated in right habits
of living, spiritual and physical. The salvation of many souls is at
stake. In the providence of God, many of the sick are to be given
the opportunity of separating for a time from harmful associations
and surroundings and of placing themselves in institutions where they
may receive health-restoring treatments and wise instruction from
Christian nurses and physicians. The establishment of sanitariums is a
providential arrangement, whereby people from all churches are to be
reached and made acquainted with the truth for this time.
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