Chapter 22—Financial Assistance in Worker
Qualification
Help Promising Young Men
It should be made a part of gospel labor to help forward promising
young men who give evidence that the love of truth and righteousness
has a constraining influence upon them, leading them to dedicate
themselves to the work of God, as medical missionaries, as canvassers,
as evangelists. Let a fund be established to carry this work forward.
Then let those who have received help go forth to minister to the sick
and suffering. This work will surely open the way for the balm of
Gilead to be applied to sin-sick souls.—
Manuscript 35, 1901
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Assistance Given Our First Medical Students
My husband and myself united in taking three promising young
men from their humble labors, and placing in the hands of each one
thousand dollars to obtain an education in medical lines. This had been
the selection that the Lord put into the mind of my husband. The Lord
had given light and preference to these three youth, and they were to
give themselves to the work of physicians.—
Letter 322, 1905
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Qualifying Executives and Evangelists
There must be a reaching higher, not seeking to excel in the outlay
of large buildings and in display, but in the powers, the capabilities,
the capacity that they may know how to manage these large interests.
Provisions should be made, means invested; a fund secured to educate
men and women of other nations and in our own country to be fitted
to reach the higher classes. We have too little working talent in the
different branches of the cause.—
Letter 44, 1887
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