Testimony Treasures, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

to maintain a high standard of spirituality. In a large institution it often
happens that responsible places are filled by workers who are not spiritually
minded, who do not exercise wisdom in dealing with those who, if wisely
treated, would be awakened, convicted, and converted.
Not one quarter of the work has been done in opening the Scriptures to
the sick that might have been done, and that would have been done in our
sanitariums if the workers had themselves received thorough instruction in
religious lines.
Where many workers are gathered together in one place, management of
a much higher spiritual tone is required than has often been maintained in
our large sanitariums.
It might seem to us that it would be best to select for our sanitariums
places among the wealthy; that this would give character to our work and
secure patronage for our institutions. But in this there is no light. "The Lord
seeth not as man seeth." 1 Samuel 16:7. Man looks at the outward
appearance; God looks at the heart. The fewer grand buildings there are
around our institutions, the less vexation we shall experience. ...
Our sanitariums should not be situated near the residences of rich men,
where they will be looked upon as an innovation and an eyesore, and
unfavorably commented upon, because they receive suffering humanity of all
classes. Pure and undefiled religion makes those who are children of God
one family, bound up with Christ in God. But the spirit of the world is proud,
partial, exclusive, favoring only a few.
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