Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

I have been repeatedly shown that it is not wise
to erect mammoth institutions. It is not by the
largeness of an institution that the greatest work for
souls is to be accomplished. A mammoth
sanitarium requires many workers. And where so
many are brought together, it is exceedingly
difficult to maintain a high standard of spirituality.
In a large institution it often happens that
responsible places are filled by workers who are
not spiritual-minded, who do not exercise wisdom
in dealing with those who, if wisely treated, would
be awakened, convicted, and converted.
Not one quarter of the work has been done in
opening the Scriptures to the sick that might have
been done, and that would have been done, in our
sanitariums, if the workers had themselves received
thorough instruction in religious lines.
Where many workers are gathered together in
one place, management of a much higher spiritual
tone is required than has been maintained in our
large sanitariums.—Testimonies for the Church
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