To raise the Health Institute from its low state in the autumn of 1869 to its present prosperous, hopeful condition has demanded sacrifices and exertions of which its friends abroad know but little. Then it had a debt of thirteen thousand dollars and had but eight paying patients. And what was worse still, the course of former managers had been such as to so far discourage its friends that they had no heart to furnish means to lift the debt or to recommend the sick to patronize the Institute. It was at this discouraging point that my husband decided in his mind that the Institute property must be sold to pay the debts, and the balance, after the payment of debts, be refunded to stockholders in proportion to the amount of stock each held. But one morning, in prayer at the family altar, the Spirit of God came upon him as he was praying for divine guidance in matters pertaining to the Institute, and he exclaimed, while bowed upon his knees: “The Lord will vindicate every word He has spoken through vision relative to the Health Institute, and it will be raised from its low estate and prosper gloriously.” {3T 174.2}

Jeg fik vist at de ni som ikke vendte tilbage for at ære Gud repræsenterede nogle sabbatsholdere som kom til Helseinstituttet som patienter. De får megen opmærksomhed og burde se lægernes bekymring og modløshed og burde være de sidste der giver dem unødige bekymringer og byrder. Dog må jeg med beklagelse sige at de patienter som ofte er sværest at styre på Helseinstituttet er dem af vor tro. De er friere til at beklage sig end nogen anden klasse. Verdslige og bekendende kristne fra andre samfund, påskønner mere de anstrengelser der gøres for deres helbredelse end mange sabbatsholdere gør. Og når de vender tilbage til deres hjem udøver de en indflydelse der mere til Helseinstituttet gunst end den sabbatsholdere udøver. Og nogle af (181) dem som føler sig fri til at klage og drage Instituttets ledelse i tvivl, er dem som er blevet behandlet for reduceret pris.