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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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learn from Him not to choose for our sanitariums<br />

the places most agreeable to our taste, but those<br />

places best suited to our work.<br />

Out of the Cities<br />

Light has been given me that in medical<br />

missi<strong>on</strong>ary work we have lost great advantages by<br />

failing to realize the need of a change in our plans<br />

in regard to the locati<strong>on</strong> of sanitariums. It is the<br />

Lord’s will that these instituti<strong>on</strong>s shall be<br />

established outside the city. They should be<br />

situated in the country, in the midst of surroundings<br />

as attractive as possible. In nature—the Lord’s<br />

garden—the sick will always find something to<br />

divert their attenti<strong>on</strong> from themselves and lift their<br />

thoughts to God.<br />

I have been instructed that the sick should be<br />

cared for away from the bustle of the cities, away<br />

from the noise of streetcars and the c<strong>on</strong>tinual<br />

rattling of carts and carriages. People who come to<br />

our sanitariums from country homes will<br />

appreciate a quiet place, and in retirement patients<br />

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