Basic HTML Version
418
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
Those in training to be nurses and physicians should daily be
given instruction that will develop the highest motives for advance-
ment. They should attend our colleges and training schools; and the
teachers in these institutions of learning should realize their respon-
sibility to work and to pray with their students. Students should learn
to be true medical missionaries, firmly bound up with the gospel
ministry....
Whenever a well-equipped sanitarium is established near a
school, it may add greatly to the strength of the medical mission-
ary course in the school if there is cooperation between the two
institutions. The teachers in the school can help the workers in the
sanitarium by their advice and counsel, and by sometimes speaking
to the patients. And, in return, those in charge of the sanitarium
can assist in training for field service the students who are desirous
of becoming medical missionaries. Circumstances, of course, must
determine the details of the arrangements that it will be best to make.
As the workers in each institution plan unselfishly to help the other,
the blessing of the Lord will surely rest upon both institutions.
[521]
No one man, whether a teacher, a physician, or a minister, can
ever hope to be a complete whole. God has given to every man
certain gifts and has ordained that men be associated in His service
in order that the varied talents of many minds may be blended. The
contact of mind with mind tends to quicken thought and increase
the capabilities. The deficiencies of one laborer are often made up
by the special gifts of another; and as physicians and teachers thus
associated unite in imparting their knowledge, the youth under their
training will receive a symmetrical, well-balanced education for
service.
The Benefit to the Patients
The benefits of hearty co-operation extend beyond physicians
and teachers, students and sanitarium helpers. When a sanitarium
is built near a school, those in charge of the educational institution
have a grand opportunity of setting a right example before those
who all through life have been easygoing idlers and who have come
to the sanitarium for treatment. The patients will see the contrast
between their idle, self-indulgent lives and the lives of self-denial