Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

journey from Egypt to Canaan. Professed followers
of Christ who have all their lives consulted their
own pleasure and their own interests, their own
ease, and their own appetites are not prepared to
change their course of action and live for the glory
of God, imitating the self-sacrificing life of their
unerring Pattern. A perfect example has been given
for Christians to imitate. The words and works of
Christ’s followers are the channel through which
the pure principles of truth and holiness are
conveyed to the world. His followers are the salt of
the earth, the light of the world.—Testimonies for
the Church 2:394 (1870).
Not a Separate Work
[Testimonies for the Church 6:240-242 (1900).]
In the work of the gospel the Lord uses different
instrumentalities, and nothing is to be allowed to
separate these instrumentalities. Never should a
sanitarium be established as an enterprise
independent of the church. Our physicians are to
unite with the work of the ministers of the gospel.
Through their labors souls are to be saved, that the
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