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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 6<br />

Successful Instituti<strong>on</strong>al Work<br />

The Secret of Success<br />

The success of the sanitarium depends up<strong>on</strong> its<br />

maintaining the simplicity of godliness and<br />

shunning the world’s follies in eating, drinking,<br />

dressing, and amusements. It must be reformatory<br />

in all its principles. Let nothing be invented to<br />

satisfy the wants of the soul and take the room and<br />

time which Christ and His service demand, for this<br />

will destroy the power of the instituti<strong>on</strong> as God’s<br />

instrumentality to c<strong>on</strong>vert poor, sin-sick souls,<br />

who, ignorant of the way of life and peace, have<br />

sought for happiness in pride and vain folly.<br />

“Standing by a purpose true” should be the<br />

positi<strong>on</strong> of all c<strong>on</strong>nected with the sanitarium.<br />

While n<strong>on</strong>e should urge our faith up<strong>on</strong> the patients<br />

or engage in religious c<strong>on</strong>troversy with them, our<br />

papers and publicati<strong>on</strong>s, carefully selected, should<br />

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