Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

e in sight almost everywhere. The religious
element must predominate. This has been and ever
will be the power of that institution. Let not our
health asylum be perverted to the service of
worldliness and fashion. There are hygienic
institutions enough in our land that are more like an
accommodating hotel than a place where the sick
and suffering can obtain relief for their bodily
infirmities, and the sin-sick soul can find that peace
and rest in Jesus to be found nowhere else. Let
religious principles be made prominent and kept
so; let pride and popularity be discarded; let
simplicity and plainness, kindness and faithfulness,
be seen everywhere; then the sanitarium will be
just what God intended it should be; then the Lord
will favor it.—Testimonies for the Church 4:586,
587 (1881).
Moral and Intellectual Culture
[Testimonies for the Church 4:545-549 (1878).]
In the view given me October 9, 1878, I was shown
the position which our sanitarium at Battle Creek
should occupy, and the character and influence
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