God designed that the sanitarium which He had established should stand forth as a beacon of light, of warning and reproof. He would prove to the world that an institution conducted on religious principles as an asylum for the sick could be sustained without sacrificing its peculiar, holy character; that it could be kept free from the objectionable features that are found in other institutions of the kind. It was to be an instrumentality in His hand to bring about great reforms. Wrong habits of life should be corrected, the morals elevated, the tastes changed, the dress reformed. {4T 582.1}

(582) Gud har planlagt at det sanatorium som han har etableret, skal stå frem som en lystårn, til advarsel og irettesættelse. Han vil vise verden at en institution, ledt på religiøse principper, som et tilflugtssted, kan holdes oppe uden at opofre dets særlige, hellige karakter; så det holdes fra ubehagelige træk der findes i andre institutioner af den slags. Det skal være et redskab i hans hånd til at fremkalde store reformer. Forkerte livsvaner bør rettes og moralen højnes, smagen ændres, klæderne reformeres.