Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Thus it has been necessary in the sanitarium at
Battle Creek to make contracts binding those who
connected with it as helpers, so that after they have
been educated and trained as nurses and as bath
hands, they shall not leave because others present
inducements to them. Money has been advanced to
some special ones that they might obtain a medical
education and be useful to the institution. Dr.—has
placed hopes upon some of these, that they would
relieve him of responsibilities that have rested most
heavily upon him. Some have become uneasy and
dissatisfied because those who have started
institutions in other parts of the country have tried
to flatter and induce them to come to their
sanitariums, promising to do better by them. In this
way the workers—some of them at least—have
become uneasy, unsettled, self-sufficient, and
unreliable, even if they did not disconnect with the
sanitarium, because they felt there were openings
for them elsewhere. Those who are just beginning
to practice have felt ready to take large
responsibilities which it would be unsafe to trust in
their hands, because they have not proved faithful
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