敬畏上帝并爱同胞的高效率的医生、护士和助手们已经藉着装备精良的疗养院完成了一番伟大的善工，这对任何一个愿意研究疗养院工作及其结果的人来说都是显而易见的。{SpTB18 2.1}
很容易看出，一个人或一个机构为上帝和人类服务的效率和力量越高，上帝和人类的敌人摧毁或削弱这个人或机构的努力就越勤奋和巧妙。因此，当困难包围着我们的疗养院工作时，我们不应灰心丧气。{SpTB18 2.2}
在《教会证言》卷六第四编〈医疗布道工作〉开头那一章“上帝对我们疗养院的计划”的开篇，我们读到：“安息日复临信徒所设立的每一个机构，对于世人而言，都要像约瑟之于埃及，但以理与其同伴之于巴比伦那样。……在顺境和逆境中，他们都尊重了上帝，上帝也重看了他们(撒上2:30)。”{SpTB18 2.3}
一直以来，上帝都重看了我们的疗养院，在许多方面把它们当作行善的媒介。祂最近把一些疗养院从债务的束缚中解救了出来;祂正在特别赐福一些已经成为福音布道工作中心的疗养院。{SpTB18 2.4}
既有过去数年在柯立芝维尤、圣赫勒那、梅尔罗斯和洛马林达的疗养院的经验在我们面前，我们就应该鼓起勇气，为摆脱债务和与我们每一个疗养院有关的服务效率而英勇作战。{SpTB18 2.5}
在纳什维尔、格雷斯维尔、亚特兰大和亨茨维尔等地建立疗养院的那几年，母亲心里一直负着沉重的负担，我有幸能和她在一起。我目睹了她在这些机构开始其崇高工作时的喜乐和欢欣。与他们早期的经历有关的拖延、失望和悲伤并没有令她感到惊讶。她对他们最终的成功充满信心。所以，对我来说，与C.C.克莱斯勒弟兄一起查考她的著作，找到许多关于田纳西州纳什维尔一所设备齐全的疗养院的必要性、特点和价值的话语，成了一个愉快责任。{SpTB18 3.1}
正是希望这本小册子能够给该机构带来力量和效率，并给它的朋友和支持者带来希望和勇气，我们才将它出版，以完成其鼓舞人心的使命。{SpTB18 3.2}
W.C.怀特
SpTB18-《THE NASHVILLE SANITARIUM》
【Introductory】
That a great and good work has been accomplished through the agency of well equipped sanitariums, operated by efficient physicians, nurses, and helpers who fear God and love their fellow men, is clearly manifest to any one who will give study to sanitarium work and its results.{SpTB18 2.1}[1]
It is easily discerned that the more efficient and powerful a man or an agency is for the service of God and humanity, the more diligent and artful are the efforts of the enemy of God and man to destroy or weaken that man or agency. Therefore we should not be disheartened when difficulties surround the work of our sanitariums.{SpTB18 2.2}[2]
In “Testimonies for the Church,” vol. 6, at the beginning of the department entitled, “Medical Missionary Work,” under the chapter-heading, “God’s Design For Our Sanitariums,’ we read: “Every institution established be Seventh-day Adventists is to be to the world what Joseph was in Egypt and what Daniel and his fellows were in Babylon.... In prosperity and adversity they honored God, and God honored them.”{SpTB18 2.3}[3]
All along the way God has honored our sanitariums by using them as agencies for good in many ways. He has recently delivered some of them from the bondage of debt; and he is especially blessing others which have been made centers for evangelistic work.{SpTB18 2.4}[4]
With the experience of the past few years of the sanitariums at College View, St. Helena, Melrose, and Loma Linda before us, we should take courage, and fight valiantly for freedom from debt and for efficiency in service in connection with each and every one of our sanitariums.{SpTB18 2.5}[5]
It was my privilege to be associated with my mother during the years that she carried on her heart a heavy burden for the establishment of our sanitariums at Nashville, Graysville, Atlanta, and Huntsville. And I have witnessed her joy and rejoicing as these institutions began their noble work. That there have been delays, disappointments, and sorrows connected with their early experiences, has not surprised her. Of their ultimate success she is confident. Therefore to me it has been a pleasant duty to unite with Bro. C. C. Crisler in searching her writings to find some of her many utterances regarding the necessity, the character, and the value of a well-equipped sanitarium at Nashville, Tenn.{SpTB18 3.1}[6]
It is with the hope that this little pamphlet may bring strength and efficiency to the institution, and hope and courage to its friends and supporters, that it is sent forth on its mission of good cheer.---W. C. White---.{SpTB18 3.2}[7]
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