Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

For All Sects and Classes
We are to invite everyone—the high and the
low, the rich and the poor, all sects and classes—to
share the benefits of our medical institutions. We
receive into our institutions people of all
denominations. But as for ourselves, we are strictly
denominational; we are sacredly denominated by
God and are under His theocracy. But we are not
unwisely to press upon anyone the peculiar points
of our faith.—Testimonies for the Church 7:109
(1902).
Medical Treatment, Right Living, and Prayer
I saw that the reason why God did not hear the
prayers of His servants for the sick among us more
fully was that He could not be glorified in so doing
while they were violating the laws of health. And I
also saw that He designed the health reform and
Health Institute to prepare the way for the prayer of
faith to be fully answered. Faith and good work
should go hand in hand in relieving the afflicted
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