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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 5<br />

Sanitariums<br />

Their Objects and Aims<br />

God’s Design in Our Sanitariums<br />

[Testim<strong>on</strong>ies for the Church 6:219-228 (1900).]<br />

Every instituti<strong>on</strong> established by Seventh-day<br />

Adventists is to be to the world what Joseph was in<br />

Egypt and what Daniel and his fellows were in<br />

Babyl<strong>on</strong>. As in the providence of God these chosen<br />

<strong>on</strong>es were taken captive, it was to carry to heathen<br />

nati<strong>on</strong>s the blessings that come to humanity<br />

through a knowledge of God. They were to be<br />

representatives of Jehovah. They were never to<br />

compromise with idolaters; their religious faith and<br />

their name as worshipers of the living God they<br />

were to bear as a special h<strong>on</strong>or.<br />

And this they did. In prosperity and adversity<br />

they h<strong>on</strong>ored God, and God h<strong>on</strong>ored them....<br />

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