Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

should establish should stand forth as a beacon of
light, of warning and reproof. He would prove to
the world that an institution conducted on religious
principles, as an asylum for the sick, could be
sustained without sacrificing its peculiar, holy
character; that it could be kept free from the
objectionable features found in other health
institutions. It was to be an instrumentality for
bringing about great reforms.
The Lord revealed that the prosperity of the
sanitarium was not to be dependent alone upon the
knowledge and skill of its physicians, but upon the
favor of God. It was to be known as an institution
where God was acknowledged as the Monarch of
the universe, an institution that was under His
special supervision. Its managers were to make
God first and last and best in everything. And in
this was to be its strength. If conducted in a manner
that God could approve, it would be highly
successful and would stand in advance of all other
institutions of the kind in the world. Great light,
great knowledge, and superior privileges were
given. And in accordance with the light received
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