写于1908年6月25日
我想就我们的疗养院发表一些声明，希望不会被误解。给我的启示是，在建立疗养院的地方，也应该有一所学校。可以将学校安置在疗养院附近，使医学教师可以经常与学生见面，但不应太近，以免学生有打扰病人的危险，或有健康机构的老顾客成为阻碍学生的一种手段的危险。{PC 34.4}
教育包括声音训练的重要工作。学生们要受教使自己的朗读和背诵有如此的表现，会使听众感兴趣。他们要受教如何使用腹部肌肉讲话，而这种学习会证明是许多发音和胸部麻烦的良方，也是延长寿命之法。{PC 34.5}
要让病人得到同样的教训。医生应该教病人如何深呼吸，在许多情况下，这将被发现是一种治疗手段。{PC 34.6}
凡希望成为传道士的人应当接受称职医师的指教。他会教导他们如何不用药物来照料病人。这种功课对于那些要到国外去的人具有极大的价值。他们所使用的简单疗法将会救许多人的性命。{PC 35.1}
药物
摘自《文稿》1908年第49号，《五旬节的经验教训》
第7页：在我们的疗养院中，我们提倡采用简单的疗法。我们不鼓励使用药物，因为药物会毒害血液的流通。在这些机构中，要给人合理的指导，涉及如何饮食，如何着装，如何生活以保持健康。{PC 35.2}
在我们中间有疗养院之前，我的丈夫和我就开始在医疗布道战线工作了。我们会把医生已经放弃治疗等死的病人带到我们家里。我们不知道怎么做的时候，就会极其恳切地为他们向上帝祷告，祂总是赐下祂的福气。祂是大能的医治者，而且祂与我们同工。我们从未有时间或机会去上医疗课程，但我们既本着敬畏上帝的心开始行动，每一步都向祂求智慧，就取得了成功。这使我们在主里有勇气。{PC 35.3}
我们就这样将祈祷和作工结合起来。我们使用简单的水疗法，然后设法使病人注目于大医师。我们告诉他们祂能为他们做什么。我们若能使病人生出盼望，就对他们大大有利。我们希望凡在我们疗养院工作的人都对那无限者的能力有坚定的把握。我们信靠祂和祂话语的能力。当我们为病人复原竭尽全力时，我们就可指望祂与我们同在，好使我们看到祂的救恩。我们对那统管世界之手的能力太少信心了。{PC 35.4}
摘自《信函》1908年第90号，日期：1908年3月24日。
我蒙指示看到，我们应该有更多的妇女能够特别处理妇女的疾病,应有更多的女护士会以简单的方式治疗病人，而不使用药物。{PC 35.5}
有许多简单的草药，如果我们的护士们乐意了解其价值，就可用它们代替药物，并且会发现是非常有效的。人多次请教我在生病或有意外事故时应该做什么，我推荐一些简单的疗法，已证明是有帮助的。{PC 35.6}
有一次，一个医师极其苦恼地来找我。他应邀为一位病情很危险的年轻妇女看病。她在营地里发了高烧，被带到澳大利亚墨尔本附近我们的校舍里。但她病情极为严重，人们担心她会丧失性命。{PC 36.1}
医师梅里特·凯洛格博士来找我说：“怀姐妹，关于这个病情你有什么亮光给我吗?如果不能使我们姐妹的病情得到缓解，她就只能活几个小时了。”{PC 36.2}
我回答道：“派人去铁匠铺，搞到一些炭粉;制成膏状，放到她的胃部和身体的两侧。”{PC 36.3}
医师匆忙离去按照我的指示去做了。不久他回来说：“在敷上药膏不到半个小时后就见好了。现在她正自然地睡眠，许多天来第一次这样睡着。”{PC 36.4}
对于其他忍受巨大疼痛的人，我吩咐用同样的治疗。既减轻了疼痛，还救了命。{PC 36.5}
我母亲曾告诉我被蛇咬，被爬行动物或有毒昆虫叮咬后，如果使用炭膏，通常是不会中毒的。{PC 36.6}
当工人们在澳大利亚埃文代尔工作时，他们的四肢常有擦伤，这在许多情况下会导致严重的发炎，以至于工人们不得不离开工作一段时间。一天有一个人在这种情况下找我，手上吊着绷带。他因这种情况非常痛苦;因为人们需要他帮助清理土地，我对他说：“去到你平时烧木料的地方，烧出一些桉树的炭，磨成粉，我会敷在你的手上。”这样做后，第二天早晨他回报说疼痛消失了。不久他准备回去工作。{PC 36.7}
我写这些事是使你们可以知道主没有丢下我们，不给我们使用简单疗法，使用简单疗法不会让身体衰弱，而药物的使用却常常导致这种状况。我们需要受过良好训练的护士，能明白如何使用自然界提供用来恢复健康的简单疗法，且能教导那些对健康律一无所知的人如何使用这些简单却有效的疗法。{PC 36.8}
摘自《信函》1908年第82号，日期：1908年2月20日。
我们的学校和疗养院的这种配合，将在许多方面证明是有益的。通过从疗养院所获得的教育，学生将学会如何在饮食方面避免养成粗心和不节制的习惯。要用简单的语言给出指令。我们不需要使用世俗医生的许多表达方式，那些方式很难理解，医生必须对它们进行解释。这些长长的名字常被用来掩盖用于对抗疾病的药物的特性。我们不需要这些。{PC 36.9}
自然的简单疗法有助于恢复健康，不会留下使用有毒性药物的人常常感到的致命后果。有毒性的药物摧毁了病人的自疗能力。要教育病人运用这种能力，学习吃简单健康的食物，不在一餐中把过多的各种食物填进胃里。这一切的事都应当教育病人知道。应当开设讲座，说明如何保持健康，如何避免疾病，如何在需要时休息。{PC 37.1}
有许多发明花费了大量的钱，这也同样不应该进入我们的工作。它们不是我们学生需要的。要让所受的教育在本质上是简单的。天父把祂的儿子赐给我们，就是赐下了天国最贵重的礼物。这份礼物是我们在服事病人时有权使用的。要以基督为你的依靠，将每一位病人交托给大医师。要让祂引导每一次的手术。诚恳且凭信心献上的祷告必蒙垂听。这会使医生有信心，使病人有勇气。{PC 37.2}
我蒙指示：我们应当引导机构中的病人凭着对那大医师的信心期待大事。主在世服务时，曾走遍城镇乡村，医治一切来到祂面前的人。没有一个人空手回去的，祂把他们全医好了。要让病人认识到，基督虽然我们眼不能见，却会给我们带来解救和医治。{PC 37.3}
摘自《信函》1903年第100号，日期：1903年5月25日
要确保果园有一定的开支。它会对待遇作出响应。给予它关心，使它能够做到最好。我认为那个果园对这个机构很有价值。{PC 37.4}
要尽你一切所能使机构从里到外彻底完善起来。勿要使你的房产处于最佳状态。不要让周围任何东西给病人的心中留下不愉快的印象。{PC 37.5}
要鼓励病人健康地生活并做充足的运动。这会对他们恢复健康起到很大作用。要把椅子安置在树荫下，以便鼓励病人多花时间在户外。而且要提供一个地方，用帆布或是玻璃封闭起来，在凉快一些的天气里，病人能坐在阳光下而不必感到风吹。{PC 37.6}
要尽力在烹饪方面找到最好的帮手。如果所预备的食物使消化器官疲劳，就要认真进行调查。食物是可以烹饪得健康可口的。{PC 37.7}
新鲜的空气和阳光，机构里里外外的欢乐气氛，令人愉快的话语和善意的行为——这些是病人需要的疗法，当你为来到疗养院的病人努力提供这些疗法时，上帝会赐给你成功作为冠冕。藉着高兴与愉快以及对他人表同情的充满盼望的话语，你自己的心灵会充满光明与平安。永远不要忘记上帝赐福的阳光值得我们付出一切。{PC 37.8}
要教导护士和病人上帝白白提供的这些恢复健康媒介的价值，使他们知道这些容易得到的简单事物的功用。{PC 38.1}
我要告诉你一点关于使用木炭作为疗法的个人经历。对于某些消化不良，其效果比药物要更灵验。在一些木炭粉里加入一点橄榄油，经过搅拌，就有清洁和医治的效果。我发现这是绝佳的方法。我们在各种发炎的病例中随意使用了从桉木获得的炭粉。……{PC 38.2}
当我们第一次去库兰邦时，在树林里清理的人常常手擦伤后进来。在这些和其他的炎症案例中，我建议尝试敷上木炭粉。有时候，在敷炭之前非常严重的炎症第二天就会消失。{PC 38.3}
总要研究并教导使用最简单的疗法，可以期待主的特别赐福会伴随着这些方法的使用，因为这些方法是普通百姓力所能及的。……{PC 38.4}
不要忘记一个工人不可背负太多的担子，令自己心力交瘁。他首要和最需要留意的是保持精神的清新愉快。在展开上帝计划的时候，我们应恢复到符合神性完美的状态。{PC 38.5}
摘自文档文件第111号，日期：1902年9月4日。
长期学习。——疗养院的管理和医生与护士按计划进行训练方面出现了问题。有人问我们，到底是少数还是许多人要接受五年的训练。{PC 38.6}
所有的人都应完全自由地随从蒙启示良知的指示。有些人经过几个月的训练就能预备好外派，从事令人满意的医疗布道工作。有些人觉得自己没有义务花几年时间去接受单门学科的学习。{PC 38.7}
护士不得受限制。——当护士服完约定的期限，并为他们的教育提供服务后，他们应该可以自由地在他们想做的地方工作，挣到他们所能挣到的。有些人在接受教育的同时，可能无法省下什么钱。他们的食宿和衣服，还有他们献给上帝圣工的礼物，可能花掉了他们所有的收入。如果他们生病了，他们就没有钱可依靠了，他们得到了疗养院的帮助，作为慈善的案例。这是一种奴役，有些人会认真地服从，而另一些人则会从真理中倒退。{PC 38.8}
修读护士医学课程的青年男女，不应被教导在毕业后将永远服从于他们接受教育的协会。当护士去看不在疗养院的病人时，他们不应该被要求除了只够支付食物和衣服的费用外，他们所挣的钱都必须交回到疗养院。{PC 39.1}
在这个问题上有许多需要考虑的。从我所拥有的亮光来看，我知道这些东西没有得到适当的调整。护士提供服务来回报他们所受的教育。不要总是要求他们将他们工资的一部分付给疗养院。这是不公正的。{PC 39.2}
当他们的服务条款届满时,护士们应该在他们喜欢的地方自由工作，并且认识到，对于使用他们所挣来的钱，他们只向上帝负责。不应该要求他们将他们的一部分收入支付给他们接受培训的疗养院。他们应当像那些已经还清债务的人一样自由，现在可以自由地按照上帝的指示使用他们的收入。{PC 39.3}
也许他们有兄弟姐妹需要在我们的学校接受教育。也许他们的父母需要他们可以从收入中节省下来的东西。他们对父母的责任是第一位的。家庭成员一直在受苦，因为缺乏护士已经捐赠给我们疗养院的资金。这些钱正是他们父母所需要的。{PC 39.4}
在这一点上需要改革，因为正义还没有得到伸张。在我们疗养院受过教育的护士不应该受到把持，好像他们已经把自己终身卖给了机构一样。这件事已被呈现在我面前，作为需要纠正的问题。{PC 39.5}
这种不明智的业务安排造成了多少沮丧和焦虑，我们决不会知道，直到众人的情况都真相大白的时候。以医疗布道工作的名义做出的许多安排，需要由所有人类医师之上的那位医师的智慧来调整。人们需要明白，公平、正义和仁慈乃是至高者的属性。主决不会喜悦对那些渴望获得医病知识之人采取的这种做法。这些护士和助手提供了忠诚的服务，却没有得到同等的回报。{PC 39.6}
要给出的实际的指示。——在培养青少年从事医疗布道工作时，要十分小心;因为心灵是由它所接受和保留的东西塑造的。在所提供的教育中做了太多不完全的工作。最有用的教育是在实际工作中发现的。{PC 39.7}
我们的各机构不应过度发展，以致最重要的教育问题得不到适当考虑。在医疗布道工作中应给予指导。医学课程的教学应与研究圣经相结合。体育锻炼也不容忽视。{PC 39.8}
对于机构中普遍存在的影响，应当十分谨慎。护士们所处的影响会永远塑造他们的品格。……{PC 40.1}
饮食和治疗要简单。——如果从起初就把所有药物从疗养院中拿出去，并使用简单的疗法，就是清洁的水，洁净的空气，阳光，和一些土产的简单草药，本来会更好的。这一切会和那些冠以神秘名字并经过人类科学调制的药物一样灵验。而且它们不会在人体系统中留下任何有害的后果。{PC 40.2}
成千的人如果不靠到药房治病，愿意放弃一切的药物，过着简朴的生活，不用茶、咖啡、酒类或香料，他们是可以恢复健康的。上述的这些东西刺激和削弱肠胃功能，使之若不受刺激就连最简单的食物也消化不了。主乐意让祂的亮光清清楚楚地照在软弱的人身上。{PC 40.3}
我们的饮食应由蔬菜、水果和各类谷物组成。不要让一点的肉食进入我们的胃。食肉本是反常的现象。我们应当回到上帝原来造人的宗旨上去。{PC 40.4}
摘自《信函》1905年第53号，日期：1905年2月2日。
要是人们愿意从错误的道路回转，寻求耶和华，学习保持身体和心灵健康的科学，就多么好啊!而他们能学习这些非常需要的功课的地方就是我们的疗养院了，主说应当在许多地方建立疗养院。可以向大众讲课，然而在所讲的话启迪多人时，若没有实际的知识，人们又怎么能充分理解呢?一次耐心的、成功的治疗，就会作一个见证，证明简单疗法的价值——自然已经提供的不用任何药物的简单卫生疗法。{PC 40.5}
当基督在这个尘世时，祂并没有指示渔夫们撇下他们的渔网和渔船，去找犹太教师得到福音事工的预备。祂在加利利海边行走，“看见弟兄二人，就是那称呼彼得的西门和他兄弟安得烈，在海里撒网;他们本是打鱼的。耶稣对他们说：来跟从我，我要叫你们得人如得鱼一样。他们就立刻舍了网，跟从了祂。从那里往前走，又看见弟兄二人，就是西庇太的儿子雅各和他兄弟约翰，同他们的父亲西庇太在船上补网，耶稣就招呼他们，他们立刻舍了船，别了父亲，跟从了耶稣”(太4:18-22)。这种立刻的顺从，没有任何疑问，没有工资的应许，似乎是非同寻常的。然而基督的话是一个邀请，暗含着祂要说的一切。在祂的话中有一种强有力的影响力。没有冗长的解释，但祂所说的有一种吸引力。{PC 40.6}
基督在传道之初就开始召集祂的助手了。这是给所有传道人的一个教训。他们应当不断寻找和训练那些能在工作中帮助他们的人。他们不应该独自站立，试图靠自己做需要完成的一切。{PC 41.1}
基督愿意使这些卑微的渔夫藉着与祂联络而成为救人的手段，使人们不再服事撒但，而是成为基督的信徒，教导他们关于上帝国度的事。在这项工作中，他们会成为祂的传道人，得人的渔夫。他们将会成为祂主要的传道人。然而祂并没有告诉他们要去世俗的学校，去获得世俗培养的好处。祂并没有告诉他们要去犹太会堂，学习拉比的风俗和传统，以便预备好从事祂要他们去做的福音传道工作。祂说：“来跟从我，我要叫你们得人如得鱼一样。”{PC 41.2}
摘自《信函》1904年第97号，日期：1904年2月23日。
你知道有没有在巴特尔克里克为我收集和晒干苜蓿尖吗?如果有，请你寄给我好吗?{PC 41.3}
摘自《信函》1905年第203号，日期：1905年7月18日。
当我们有机会可以用低价购进开展工作的建筑时，我们要利用这些机会。如果在巴特尔克里克医疗工作的负责人当时这样做了，现在我们美国的城市里就会有许多机构建立起来，这些城市至今仍没有受到健康改革真理的光照。{PC 41.4}
在我们所有的大城市附近都应当有疗养院，要利用机会在有利的地点购置建筑，使真理的旗帜可以插在许多地方。{PC 41.5}
我们的疗养院要成为将医疗布道的知识教导人的学校。他们要将生命树的叶子给那些身患罪病的人，使之在基督耶稣里恢复和平、希望与信心。不要禁止希望开展这项工作的人。要让真光照耀出来。一切有价值的健康产品都会使人对健康改革产生兴趣。不要禁止他们。主希望我们利用一切机会开展工作。{PC 41.6}
我们将在困难的条件下工作，可是我们不要因此而让热情减退。圣经并不认可懒惰的信徒，不论他们自称是多么高尚。在天上是要工作的。得救的状态并不是无所事事的。有安息为上帝的子民存留(来4:9)。但这安息乃是在爱的服务之中。在赎民中间有些人是在生命的最后时刻接受基督的。他们在离世时还没有完全明白救恩的计划，所以在天上将要继续教导他们。基督要带领赎民到生命河边，告诉他们在世上时所无法明白的事情。{PC 42.1}
From MS. 83, 1908 Written June 25, 1908
I wish to make some statements regarding our sanitariums which I hope will not be misunderstood. The light given me is that where a sanitarium is established, there should also be a school. This can be placed near enough to the sanitarium so that the medical teachers can meet often with the students, yet it should not be so near that there will be danger of the students disturbing the patients or patrons of the health institution being a means of hindrance to the students.?{PC 34.4}
Education includes the important work of voice culture. The students are to be taught to give their reading and recitations such expression as will make their work interesting to the hearers. They are to be taught how to use the abdominal muscles in speaking, and this study will prove to be a remedy for many voice and chest difficulties, and the means of prolonging life.?{PC 34.5}
Let the same lessons be given to the patients. The physician should?teach the patient how to breathe deeply, and this in many cases will be found to be a means of healing.?{PC 34.6}
Those who desire to become missionaries are to hear instruction from competent physicians, who will teach them how to care for the sick without the use of drugs. Such lessons will be of the highest value to those who go out to labor in foreign countries. And the simple remedies used will save many lives. -?{PC 35.1}
Drugs
From MS No. 49, 1908. “Lessons from the Experience of Pentecost”
Page 7: In our sanitariums, we advocate the use of simple remedies. We discourage the use of drugs, for they poison the current of the blood. In these institutions sensible instruction should be given, how to eat, how to drink, how to dress, and how to live so that the health may be preserved.?{PC 35.2}
Before there were any sanitariums amongst us, my husband and I began work in medical missionary lines. We would bring to our house cases that had been given up by the physicians to die. When we knew not what to do for them, we would pray to God most earnestly and He always sent His blessing. He is the mighty Healer, and He worked with us. We never had time or opportunity to take a medical course, but we had success as we moved out in the fear of God, and sought Him for wisdom at every step. This gave us courage in the Lord.?{PC 35.3}
Thus we combined prayer and labor. We used the simple water treatments, and then tried to fasten the eyes of the patient onto the great Healer. We told them what He could do for them. If we can inspire the patients with hope, this is greatly to their advantage. We want all that have any part to act in our sanitariums to have a firm grasp on the power of the Infinite. We believe in Him and in the power of His word. When we do our best for the recovery of the sick, we may then look for Him to be with us, that we may see of His salvation. We put too little confidence in the power of the hand that rules the world. -?{PC 35.4}
B.90 ’08
I have been shown that we should have many more women who can deal especially with the diseases of women, many more lady nurses who will treat the sick in a simple way and without the use of drugs.?{PC 35.5}
There are many simple herbs which, if our nurses would learn the value of, they could use in the place of drugs, and find very effective. Many times I have been applied to for advice as to what should be done in cases of sickness or accident, and I have mentioned some of these simple remedies, and they have proved helpful.?{PC 35.6}
On one such occasion a physician came to me in great distress. He had been called to attend a young woman who was dangerously ill. She had contracted fever while on the campground, and was taken to our school building, near Melbourne, Australia. But she became so much worse that it was feared she could not live.?{PC 36.1}
The physician, Dr. Merritt Kellogg, came to me and said, “Sister White, have you any light for me on this case? If relief cannot be given our sister, she can live but a few hours.”?{PC 36.2}
I replied, “Send to a blacksmith shop, and get some pulverised charcoal, make a poultice of it, and lay it over her stomach and sides.”?{PC 36.3}
The doctor hastened away to follow out my instructions. Soon he returned, saying, “Relief came in less than half an hour after the application of the poultices. She is now having the first natural sleep she has had for days.”?{PC 36.4}
I have ordered the same treatment for others who were suffering great pain, and it has brought relief, and been the means of saving life.?{PC 36.5}
My mother told me that snake bites and the sting of reptiles and poisonous insects could often be rendered harmless by the use of charcoal poultices.?{PC 36.6} When working on the land at Avondale, Australia, the workmen would often bruise their hands and limbs, and this in many cases resulted in such severe inflammation that the worker would have to leave his work for some time. One came to me one day in this condition, with his hand tied in a sling. He was much troubled over the circumstance; for his help was needed in clearing the land. I said to him, “Go to the place where you have been burning the timber, and get me some charcoal from the eucalyptus tree, pulverize it, and I will dress your hand.” This was done, and the next morning he reported that the pain was gone. Soon he was ready to return to his work.?{PC 36.7}
I write these things that you may know that the Lord has not left us without the use of simple remedies which when used, will not leave the system in the weakened condition in which the use of drugs so often leaves it. We need well-trained nurses who can understand how to use the simple remedies that nature provides for restoration to health, and who can teach those who are ignorant of the laws of health how to use these simple but effective cures. -?{PC 36.8}
B.82
This blending of our schools and sanitariums will prove an advantage in many ways. Through the instruction given by the sanitarium, students will learn how to avoid forming careless, intemperate habits of eating. Let the instruction be given in simple words. We have no need to use the many expressions used by worldly physicians, which are so difficult to understand that they must be interpreted by the physician. These long names are often used to conceal the character of the drugs being used to combat disease. We do not need these.?{PC 36.9}
Nature’s simple remedies will aid in recovery without leaving the deadly after-effects so often felt by those who use poisonous drugs. They destroy the power of the patient to help himself. This power the patients are to be taught to exercise by learning to eat simple, healthful foods, by refusing to overload the stomach with a variety of foods at one meal. All these things should be given showing how to preserve health, how to shun sickness, how to rest when rest is needed.?{PC 37.1}
There are many inventions which cost large sums of money, which it is just as well should not come into our work. They are not what our students need. Let the education given be simple in its nature. In giving us His Son the Father gave the most costly gift that heaven could bestow. This gift it is our privilege to use in our ministration to the sick. Let Christ be your dependence. Commit every case to the great Healer; let Him guide in every operation. The prayer offered in sincerity and in faith will be heard. This will give confidence to the physicians and courage to the sufferer.?{PC 37.2}
I have been instructed that we should lead the sick in our institutions to expect large things because of the faith of the physician in the great Healer who, in the years of His earthly ministry, went through the towns and villages of the land, and healed all who came to Him. None were turned empty away; He healed them all. Let the sick realize that, although unseen, Christ is present to bring relief and healing. -?{PC 37.3}
K. 100’03
Be sure that the orchard has some means expended on it. It will respond to treatment. Give it the care that will enable it to do its best. I look upon that orchard as of great value to the institution.?{PC 37.4}
Do all that you possibly can to perfect the institution inside and out. Be sure that your premises are in the best of order. Let there be nothing about them that will make a disagreeable impression on the minds of the patients.?{PC 37.5}
Encourage the patients to live healthfully and to take an abundance of exercise. This will do much to restore them to health. Let seats be placed under the shade of the trees, that the patients may be encouraged to spend much time out-of-doors. And a place should be provided, enclosed either with canvas or with glass, where, in cooler weather, the patients can sit in the sun without feeling the wind.?{PC 37.6}
Obtain the best help in the cooking that you can. If food is prepared in such a way that it is a tax on the digestive organs, be sure that investigation is needed. Food can be prepared in such a way as to be both wholesome and palatable.?{PC 37.7}
Fresh air and sunshine, cheerfulness within and without the institution, pleasant words and kindly acts,—these are the remedies that the sick need, and God will crown with success your efforts?to provide these remedies for the sick ones who come to the sanitarium. By happiness and cheerfulness and expressions of sympathy and hopefulness for others, your own soul will be filled with light and peace. And never forget that the sunshine of God’s blessing is worth everything to us.?{PC 37.8} T
each nurses and patients the value of those health-restoring agencies that are freely provided by God, and the usefulness of simple things that are easily obtained.?{PC 38.1} I will tell you a little about my own experience with charcoal as a remedy. For some forms of indigestion it is more efficacious than drugs. A little olive oil into which some of this powder has been stirred tends to cleanse and heal. I find it is excellent. Pulverized charcoal from eucalyptus wood, we have used freely in cases of inflammation...?{PC 38.2} When we first went to Cooranbong, the men who were clearing in the woods often came in with bruised hands. In these and other cases of inflammation, I advised the trial of a compress of pulverized charcoal. Sometimes the inflammation, which was very high before the compress was applied, would be gone by the next day.?{PC 38.3}
Always study and teach the use of the simplest remedies, and the special blessing of the Lord may be expected to follow the use of these means which are within the reach of the common people...?{PC 38.4}
Do not forget that a worker must not take upon himself so many burdens that his soul will become weary. His first and greatest care should be to keep fresh and fragrant in spirit. In the unfolding of God’s plan, we are to be restored to a state corresponding to the perfection of divinity. -?{PC 38.5}
File No. 111
From Document File No. 111, dated Sept. 4, 1902.
Long Courses of Study—Questions have arisen in regard to the management of sanitariums, and in regard to the plans to be followed in the education of physicians and nurses. We are asked whether a few or many should take a five years’ course.?{PC 38.6}
All are to be left perfectly free to follow the dictates of an enlightened conscience. There are those who with a few months’ instruction would be prepared to go out and do acceptable medical missionary work. Some cannot feel that it is their duty to give years to one line of study.?{PC 38.7}
Nurses not to be restricted.—After the nurses have served the term agreed upon, and have given their services in return for their education, they should be at liberty to take up work where they wish, and to earn what they can. Some may not have been able to save any money while getting their education. Their board and clothing, with the gifts they have made to the cause of God, may have taken all their earnings. Then if they are taken sick, they have no money to fall back on, and they are helped by the sanitarium as cases of charity.?This is a species of slavery to which some will conscientiously submit, while others will backslide from the truth.?{PC 38.8}
The young men and women who take their medical course of the nurses’ course, should not be taught that after their graduation they will ever after be amenable to the association under which they received their education. When nurses go to patients not in the sanitarium, they should not be required to return to the sanitarium all that they earn, except just enough to cover the cost of food and clothing.?{PC 39.1}
There is much to be considered in regard to this matter. From the light I have, I know that these things are not properly adjusted. The nurses give their services in return for the education that they receive. They are not always to be required to pay a portion of their wages to the sanitarium. This is not just.?{PC 39.2}
And when their term of service has expired, the nurses should be left free to work where they please, and to recognize that they are accountable only to God for the use they make of the money they earn. They are not to be required to pay to the sanitarium at which they received their training, a certain part of their earnings. They are to be left free as those who have settled their indebtedness, and are now at liberty to use their earnings as God directs.?{PC 39.3}
Perhaps they have brothers and sisters who need an education in our schools. Perhaps their parents need what they can spare from their earnings. Their duty to their parents comes first. There has been suffering in families for want of the means that nurses have given in donations to our sanitariums. This very money was needed by their parents.?{PC 39.4}
A reformation is needed on this point, for justice has not been done. A hold is not to be retained on the nurses educated in our sanitariums, as if they had sold themselves to the institution for life. This matter has been presented to me as something that needs to be set right.?{PC 39.5}
How much depression and anxiety has been the result of this unwise business arrangement will never be known until the cases of all are seen as they really are. Many of the arrangements made in the name of medical missionary work, need adjusting by the wisdom of a Physician that is above all human physicians. Men need to understand that equity and justice and mercy are the attributes of the Most High. In no case will the Lord be pleased with a course such as has been followed in dealing with those who are anxious to obtain a knowledge in the treatment of the sick. These nurses and helpers rendered faithful service, but have not received an equivalent.?{PC 39.6}
Practical Instruction to be Given.—Great care should be exercised in the training of young people for the medical missionary work; for the mind is moulded by that which it receives and retains. Too much incomplete work has been done in the education given. The most useful education is that found in practical work.?{PC 39.7}
Our institutions are not to be so overgrown that the most important?points in education do not receive the proper consideration. Instruction should be given in medical missionary work. The teaching given in medical lines should be blended with a study of the Bible. And physical training should not be neglected.?{PC 39.8}
Great care should be exercised in regard to the influences that prevail in the institution. The influences under which the nurses are placed will mold their characters for eternity...?{PC 40.1}
Simplicity in Diet and Treatments.- It would have been better if, from the first, all drugs had been kept out our sanitariums, and use had been made of such simple remedies as are found in pure water, pure air, sunlight, and some of the simple herbs growing in the field. These would be just as efficacious as the drugs used under mysterious names and concocted by human science. And they would leave no injurious effects in the system.?{PC 40.2}
Thousands who are afflicted might recover their health if, instead of depending upon the drug-store for their life, they would discard all drugs and live simply, without using tea, coffee, liquor, or spices, which irritate the stomach and leave it weak, unable to digest even simple food without stimulation. The Lord is willing to let His light shine forth in clear, distinct rays to all who are weak and feeble.?{PC 40.3}
Vegetables, fruits, and grains should compose our diet. Not an ounce of flesh-meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is unnatural. We are to return to God’s original purpose in the creation of man. -?{PC 40.4}
B.53’05
Extracts from letter B.53’05, dated February 2, 1905.
If only our souls will be converted from the error of their ways, and seek the Lord, and learn the science of preserving the health of the body and the soul! And where can they learn these much-needed lessons as well as at our sanitarium, which the Lord has said should be established in many places? Lectures might be given to the multitudes, but while the words spoken would enlighten many minds, how can people understand fully without a practical knowledge? One patient, successfully treated, will have a testimony to bear of the virtue of the simple methods of treatment, the simple, healthful remedies that nature has provided, without the use of drugs.?{PC 40.5}
When Christ was upon this earth, He did not direct fisherman to leave their nets and boats, and go to the Jewish teachers to gain a preparation for the gospel ministry. Walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw “two brothers, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers. And He said unto them, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed Him. And going on from thence, He saw two other brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them. And they immediately left the ship, and their father, and followed Him.”?This prompt obedience, without any question, without one promise of wages, seems remarkable. But the words of Christ were an invitation that implied all that He meant it should. There was an impelling influence in His words. There was no long explanation, but what He said had a drawing power.?{PC 40.6}
It was at the very beginning of His ministry that Christ began to gather in His helpers. This is a lesson to all ministers. They should constantly be looking for and training those who they think could help them in their work. They should not stand alone, trying to do by themselves all that needs to be done.?{PC 41.1}
Christ would make these humble fishermen, in connection with Himself, the means of taking men out of the service of Satan, and making them believers in Christ; teaching them in regard to the kingdom of God. In this work they would become His ministers, fishers of men. They were to be His prime ministers. But He did not tell them to go to worldly schools to obtain the advantages of worldly cultivation. He did not tell them to go to the Jewish synagogues to learn of the rabbis, their customs and traditions, in order that they might be prepared for the work He had for them to do as His evangelists. He said, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” -?{PC 41.2}
H. 97’04
From Letter H. 97’04, dated Feb. 23, 1904.
Do you know if any clover tops were gathered and dried for me in Battle Creek? If so, will you please send them to me? -?{PC 41.3}
Extracts from letter K. 203’05, dated July 18, 1905.
When an opportunity presents itself to purchase at a low price buildings in which our work may be carried on, let us take advantage of these opportunities. Had this been done by the leaders of the medical work in Battle Creek, there would now be many, many plants in our cities in America, cities that have not yet been enlightened by the truth upon health reform.?{PC 41.4}
There should be sanitariums in all our large cities. Advantage should be taken of the opportunities to purchase buildings in favorable locations, that the standard of truth may be planted in many places.?{PC 41.5}
Our sanitariums are to be schools in which instruction shall be given in medical missionary lines. They are to bring to sin-sick souls the leaves of the tree of life, which will restore to them peace and hope and faith in Christ Jesus. Forbid not those who have a desire to extend the work. Let the light shine forth. All worthy health productions will create an interest in health reform. Forbid them not. The Lord would have all opportunities to extend the work, taken advantage of.?{PC 41.6}
We shall have to labor under difficulties, but because of this let not our zeal flag. The Bible does not acknowledge a believer who is idle, however high his profession may be. There will be employment in heaven. The redeemed state is not one of idle repose. “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God, “But it is a rest found in loving service. Some among the redeemed will have laid hold of Christ in the last hours of life, and in heaven instruction will be given to these who, when they died, did not understand perfectly the plan of salvation. Christ will lead the redeemed ones beside the river of life, and will open to them that which while on this earth they could not understand. -?{PC 42.1}
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