Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

our institutions would do well to heed this lesson:
“Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing
be lost.” John 6:12. This is the duty of all, and
those who occupy a leading position should set the
example.
Loyalty to Our Institutions
[Health, Philanthropic, and Medical Missionary
Work, 29-33 (1888).] The sanitarium at Battle
Creek has been built up under a pressure of
difficulties. There have had to be decisive
measures taken, contracts signed by those who
were engaged as helpers that they would remain a
certain number of years. This has been a positive
necessity. After help has been secured, and by
considerable painstaking efforts these have become
efficient workers, wealthy patients have held out
inducements of better wages to secure them as
nurses for their own special benefit, at their own
homes. And these helpers have often left the
sanitarium and gone with them, without taking into
consideration the labor that had been put forth to
qualify them as efficient workers. This has not
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