Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

strength to this class, who are debased physically,
mentally, and morally.
But there is a class who have, through
ignorance, lived in violation of nature’s laws. They
have worked intemperately and have eaten
intemperately, because it was the custom to do so.
Some have suffered many things from many
physicians, but have not been made better, but
decidedly worse. At length they are torn from
business, from society, and from their families; and
as their last resort, they come to the Health
Institute, with some faint hope that they may find
relief. This class need sympathy. They should be
treated with the greatest tenderness, and care
should be taken to make clear to their
understanding the laws of their being, that they
may, by ceasing to violate them, and by governing
themselves, avoid suffering and disease, the
penalty of nature’s violated law....
Remember Christ, who came in direct contact
with suffering humanity. Although, in many cases,
the afflicted had brought disease upon themselves
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