Manuscript Releases, vol. 1 [Nos. 19-96]

Tea, Coffee, and Meat to Be Served only in Patient's Room

We are not to make rules with the idea that they are never to be changed or modified. In our sanitariums the Seventh-day Sabbath is ever to be kept holy. No tea, coffee, or flesh meat is to be served, unless it is in some special case, where the patient particularly desires it, and then, these articles of food should be served to him in his room. No tests that the Bible does not require are to be brought in. Every effort should be made to win the confidence of the patients, that their hearts may be reached by the truth. The workers are to draw as near to them as they can, bringing them into the sunshine of Christ's love. 1MR 290.4

“The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits” (James 3:17). Letter 213, 1902, pp. 6, 8, 9. (“To Those in Positions of Responsibility in the St. Helena Sanitarium,” November 3, 1902.) 1MR 291.1