Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

The advantage of outdoor life must never be
lost sight of. How thankful we should be that God
has given us beautiful sanitarium properties at
Paradise Valley and Glendale and Loma Linda!
“Out of the cities! out of the cities!”—this has been
my message for years. We cannot expect the sick
to recover rapidly when they are shut in within four
walls, in some city, with no outside view but
houses, houses, houses—nothing to animate,
nothing to enliven. And yet how slow some are to
realize that the crowded cities are not favorable
places for sanitarium work!
Even in Southern California not many years
ago, there were some who favored the erection of a
large sanitarium building in the heart of Los
Angeles. In the light of the instruction God had
given, we could not consent to the carrying out of
any such plan. In the visions of the night the Lord
had shown me unoccupied properties in the
country, suitable for sanitarium purposes, and for
sale at a price far below the original cost.
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