Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

not able to pay the regular prices for board,
treatment, etc. The Institute has struggled hard with
debts the last three years, and could not treat
patients, to any considerable extent, without full
pay. It would please God for all our people who are
able to do so, to take stock liberally in the Institute,
to place it in a condition where it can help God’s
humble, worthy poor. In connection with this, I
saw that Christ identifies Himself with suffering
humanity, and that what we have the privilege of
doing for even the least of His children, whom He
calls His brethren, we do to the Son of God....
To raise the Health Institute from its low state
in the autumn of 1869 to its present prosperous,
hopeful condition has demanded sacrifices and
exertions of which its friends abroad know but
little. Then it had a debt of thirteen thousand
dollars, and had but eight paying patients. And
what was worse still, the course of former
managers had been such as to so far discourage its
friends that they had no heart to furnish means to
lift the debt, or to recommend the sick to patronize
the Institute. It was at this discouraging point that
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