Chapter 38—Medical Students
Need of Medical Students
1070. I am intensely interested in the education of medical students
as missionaries. This will prove a means of introducing the truth where
otherwise it would not find an entrance.—
Unpublished Testimonies,
October 2, 1895
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1071. I can see that in the Lord’s providence the medical mission-
ary work is to be a great entering wedge, whereby the diseased soul
may be reached.—
Ibid
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1072. What a field of usefulness is open before the medical mis-
sionary! Jesus Christ was in every sense of the word a missionary of
the highest type, combining with his missionary work that of the great
Physician, healing all manner of diseases.... Every physician ought
to be a Christian, and if he is, he bears with him a cure for the soul
as well as the body. He is doing the work of an apostle as well as of
a physician.... How essential that the missionary should understand
the diseases which afflict the human body, that he may combine the
physician, trained to care for diseased bodies, with the faithful, consci-
entious shepherd of the flock, giving sacredness and double efficiency
to the service! The Lord, in his great goodness and matchless love,
has been urging it upon his human instrumentalities that the education
of missionaries is not really complete unless they have a knowledge of
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how to treat the sick and suffering. If the importance of this branch
of missionary education had been felt, many who have lost their lives
might have lived. Had they had an intelligent knowledge of the human
body and how to treat its maladies, they could have reached many
darkened minds that have not been reached.—
Ibid
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1073. Devout persons, both men and women, are wanted now to
go forth as medical missionaries. Let them cultivate their physical
and mental powers and their piety to the utmost. Every effort should
be made to send forth intelligent workers. The same grace that came
from Jesus Christ to Paul and Apollos, which caused them to be distin-
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