Friedensau Sanitarium

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 12, 1907

Friedensau Sanitarium

THE progress of the work in Germany, especially in the last five or six years, has been phenomenal, over two thousand members having been added since Jan. 1, 1906.

The medical missionary work has also had a rapid growth since the opening of the school at Friedensau and the dedication of the sanitarium, July 29, 1901. The health paper, Gute Gesundheit, started three years previously, had opened the way among our people as well as others.

In the institutions, nurses were trained and sent out to different parts of Germany, Russia, Austria, and other countries. Sixty-five fully trained nurses are now at work, and by canvassing, visiting physicians and influential men and women, besides nursing and giving treatments, are introducing our health teachings, and are advertising our institutions.

Friedensau lies far out in the country, surrounded by forests, and has a healthful atmosphere and fine artesian water. Patients become very much attached to the place. Many of them come repeatedly, year after year, to enjoy the quiet country life, the fresh air, simple vegetarian diet, and the treatments. They also find something in our religion which they do not find elsewhere. They find a people here who do not use stimulants, and who deny themselves of fine and fashionable clothing, and highly seasoned foods, and all those things that men usually most desire.

One of our patients described Friedensau as follows:— “Friedensau is the name of a small planet which is connected but loosely with our earth. It is inhabited by a different and better class of people. They do not strive for wealth or might, nor do they live for gain or renown, nor to satisfy the lustful appetite. For one great object they strive, collectively and individually, and that is to live out the one great underlying principle of all religion, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ This small state is supported and held by a great and endless faith in a supreme Being, which every subject carries into every detail of his daily work.

“Happy is he who can find the time to get away from the busy world to abide here for a season. The rest and quiet in nature about one, the complete absence of care and fear, the cheerfulness of the people, the interest they manifest in their work, their abiding faith for the near and distant future, must lead every one who has a spark of life energy within him, to health of body and soul.”

DR. A. J. HOENES.