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Co-Operation Between Schools and Sanitariums
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and service lived by Christ’s followers. They will learn that the
object of medical missionary work is to restore, to correct wrongs,
to show human beings how to avoid the self-indulgence that brings
disease and death.
The words and action of the workers in the sanitarium and in the
school should plainly reveal that life is an intensely solemn thing in
view of the account which all must render to God. Each one should
now put his talents out to the exchangers, adding to the Master’s gift,
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blessing others with the blessings given him.
Unity Among Workers
That the best results may be secured by the establishment of
a sanitarium near a school there needs to be perfect harmony be-
tween the workers in both institutions. This is sometimes difficult
to secure, especially when teachers and physicians are inclined to
be self-centered, each considering as of the greatest importance the
work with which he is most closely connected. When men who are
self-confident are in charge of institutions in close proximity, great
annoyance might result were each determined to carry out his own
plans, refusing to make concessions to others. Those at the head of
the sanitarium and those at the head of the school will need to guard
against clinging tenaciously to their own ideas concerning things
that are really nonessentials.
Consecrated Service
There is a great work to be done by our sanitariums and schools.
Time is short. What is done must be done quickly. Let those who
are connected with these important instrumentalities be wholly con-
verted. Let them not live for self, for worldly purposes, withhold-
ing themselves from full consecration to God’s service. Let them
give themselves, body, soul, and spirit, to God, to be used by Him
in saving souls. They are not at liberty to do with themselves as
they please; they belong to God, for He has bought them with the
lifeblood of His only-begotten Son. And as they learn to abide in
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Christ, there will remain in the heart no room for selfishness. In His
service they will find the fullest satisfaction.