Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

have been easygoing idlers and who have come to
the sanitarium for treatment. The patients will see
the contrast between their idle, self-indulgent lives
and the lives of self-denial and service lived by
Christ’s followers. They will learn that the object
of medical missionary work is to restore, to correct
wrongs, to show human beings how to avoid the
self-indulgence that brings disease and death.
The words and action of the workers in the
sanitarium and in the school should plainly reveal
that life is an intensely solemn thing in view of the
account which all must render to God. Each one
should now put his talents out to the exchangers,
adding to the Master’s gift, blessing others with the
blessings given him.
Unity Among Workers
That the best results may be secured by the
establishment of a sanitarium near a school there
needs to be perfect harmony between the workers
in both institutions. This is sometimes difficult to
secure, especially when teachers and physicians are
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