The Health Institute by JAMES WHITE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 8, 1869

The Health Institute.

By JAMES WHITE

BE IN SEASON.

I HAVE a few brief sentences to write relative to the Health Institute, located at Battle Creek, Mich.

1. It is prospering finely. It is crowded with patients. They seem to be happy. They are doing well. Some most remarkable cures are being wrought.

2. During the past year a large proportion of patients have been treated and boarded at half price. This has added to the embarrassments of the Institute. Many of these persons could pay nothing. Their relatives, or the church to which they belonged, or the benevolent fund, has paid half. The Institute has given half. There must be a larger proportion of full-paying patients at our Institute.

3. No persons should come to the Institute expecting reduction in prices without first corresponding, and making full arrangements.

4. Be in season. Let the afflicted obtain help while it may be obtained. One month at the Institute when you are beginning to fail will do more for you than one year after the other doctors have given you up, and there only remains the breath of life in you. The great object of the Health Reform and the Health Institute is to teach men and women how to live so as to best preserve and increase their fund of vitality. One half of the readers of the REVIEW would do well to spend from three weeks to three months at the Institute. Their money laid out at full prices would pay fifty per cent in the end. The advantages health-wise cannot be estimated in dollars and cents.

Are you feeble, and liable to break down? Come while you can be helped. Do not wait till you are so low as to only be able to reach the Institute just alive, to be told, on examination, that there is no help for you. Or if you stay, have to be carried up and down stairs, lingering a long time between life and death, a cause of sadness to every one who sees you, and a burden to yourself.

Be in season in this matter. Do not wait till you have eaten all the drugs in town, and have fairly gotten up an apothecary shop in your stomach, and you are nearly ready for the cemetery, before you decide to come to the Institute.

The object of the Institute is not to take these desperate cases that have been delayed and delayed till every ray of hope for health elsewhere has departed. Its great object is to save men from that terrible condition. You do not do the Institute justice to put off the matter of recovery till your case becomes doubtful. Come while it is a matter of certainty that you can be helped.

Come with a cheerful, liberal mind. Do not talk of reduction in prices. Come with the feeling that it is your Institute, and must be sustained and freed from its financial embarrassments. It is now conducted with economy. All connected, who receive pay for their services, manifest a good degree of true Christian benevolence. And we expect to see the same liberal spirit manifested by all true friends of health reform. We design to appeal to you, friends of humanity, of reform and of truth, to help the Institute by your liberal donations in its work of Christian philanthropy in treating the afflicted poor for half pay. If you will respond to the call, these can be helped. If not, they cannot be helped to the extent they have been the past year. This is a work of benevolence. Read the parable of the sheep and goats in Matt. xxv, and then say if this is not part of that very work. At the Institute, the hungry have been fed, the destitute have been clothed, and the sick and distressed have been, in a spirit of Christian sympathy, relieved. This has been done to Christ. Will you take part?

Battle Creek, Mich., June 4, 1869.

JAMES WHITE.