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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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the work of the instituti<strong>on</strong> educati<strong>on</strong>al in character.<br />

A school is to be established here for the training<br />

of gospel medical missi<strong>on</strong>ary evangelists.<br />

The Sabbath in Our Sanitariums<br />

[Testim<strong>on</strong>ies for the Church 7:104-109 (1902).]<br />

I have been instructed that our medical instituti<strong>on</strong>s<br />

are to stand as witnesses for God. They are<br />

established to relieve the sick and the afflicted, to<br />

awaken a spirit of inquiry, to disseminate light, and<br />

to advance reform. These instituti<strong>on</strong>s, rightly<br />

c<strong>on</strong>ducted, will be the means of bringing a<br />

knowledge of the reforms essential to prepare a<br />

people for the coming of the Lord, before many<br />

that otherwise it would be impossible for us to<br />

reach.<br />

Many of the patr<strong>on</strong>s of our medical instituti<strong>on</strong>s<br />

have high ideas in regard to the presence of God<br />

abiding in the instituti<strong>on</strong> they visit, and they are<br />

very susceptible to the spiritual influences that<br />

prevail. If all the physicians, nurses, and helpers<br />

are walking circumspectly before God, they have<br />

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