Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

and the beautiful flowers, encouraging them to see
in every opening bud and blossoming flower an
expression of His love for His children.
It is the expressed will of God that our
sanitariums shall be established as far from the
cities as is consistent. So far as possible, these
institutions should be located in quiet, secluded
places, where opportunity will be afforded for
giving the patients instruction concerning the love
of God and the Eden home of our first parents,
which, through the sacrifice of Christ, is to be
restored to man.
In the effort made to restore the sick to health,
use is to be made of the beautiful things of the
Lord’s creation. Seeing the flowers, plucking the
ripe fruit, listening to the happy songs of the birds,
has a peculiarly exhilarating effect on the nervous
system. From outdoor life men, women, and
children gain a desire to be pure and guileless. By
the influence of the quickening, reviving, lifegiving
properties of nature’s great medicinal
resources, the functions of the body are
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