General Conference Bulletin, vol. 4

SANITARIUMS AND HEALTH INSTITUTIONS

This important branch of our work is enjoying well-merited support and prosperity. The Battle Creek Sanitarium, the oldest, and the cherishing mother, of all similar institutions, has enjoyed by far the largest patronage the past two years of any similar period in its history. GCB April 3, 1901, page 21.6

Hygienic living and the proper care and treatment of the body, both in sickness and in health, are a part of the reform of which the third angel’s message is composed: hence wherever the message is preached, and believers are brought into the truth, there soon follows a demand for a properly equipped sanitarium, supplied with doctors and nurses, more fully to teach these principles. Thus as the message advances, new institutions of this character are springing up all over the world. Since our last General Conference, nine such institutions have been started,-one in Germany, two in Australia, one in New Zealand, and five in the United States, thus increasing the number of such institutions in various parts of the world to twenty-four. A large number of small bath-and treatment-rooms have also been started, and are being maintained in various parts of the world. GCB April 3, 1901, page 21.7

In addition to rescue missions and industrial homes, another feature of this work has been the starting and maintaining of hygienic restaurants in several of our large cities. The journals and papers published in the interests of health principles have received a fair support, but not such as their importance demands. All should realize that an education along these lines is an important part of the Lord’s great work for the salvation of souls. There should be a revival of interest in this department of our work, both for our own good and the good of those who are living in ignorance and transgression of the laws of their being. GCB April 3, 1901, page 21.8