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Section 4—Our Medical College
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are already enfeebled by disease or overwork should pay special
attention to the laws of life. He should take time for recreation. He
should not take upon himself responsibility outside of his schoolwork
which will so tax him, physically or mentally, that his nervous system
will be unbalanced; for in this case he will be unfitted to deal with
minds and cannot do justice to himself or to his pupils.
Our institutions of learning should be provided with every facil-
ity for instruction regarding the mechanism of the human system.
Students should be taught how to breathe, how to read and speak
so that the strain will not come on the throat and lungs, but on the
abdominal muscles. Teachers need to educate themselves in this di-
rection. Our students should have a thorough training, that they may
enter upon active life with an intelligent knowledge of the habitation
which God has given them. Teach them that they must be learners as
long as they live. And while you are teaching them, remember that
they will teach others. Your lessons will be repeated for the benefit
of many more than sit before you day by day.—F.E. 146-148.
Educate in the Simplicity of Christ
The Lord has instructed us that in our institutions of education
we should ever be striving for the perfection of character to be
found in the life of Christ and in His instruction to His disciples.
Having received our commission from the highest authority, we are
to educate, educate, educate, in the simplicity of Christ. Our aim
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must be to reach the highest standard in every feature of our work.
He who healed thousands with a touch and a word is our Physician.
The precious truths contained in His teachings are to be our front
guard and our rereward.
The standard set for our sanitariums and schools is a high one,
and a great responsibility rests upon the physicians and teachers
connected with these institutions. Efforts should be made to secure
teachers who will instruct after Christ’s manner of teaching, regard-
ing this of more value than any human methods. Let them honor
the educational standards established by Christ, and following His
instruction give their students lessons in faith and in holiness.
Christ was sent of the Father to represent His character and will.
Let us follow His example in laboring to reach the people where