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Medical Ministry
our educational institutions. Secure for it the best talent, and guard
against the dangers of an overcrowded school.—
Letter 253, 1908
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Many Training Schools
Let forces be set at work to clear new ground, to establish new
centers of influence, wherever an opening can be found. Rally
workers who possess true missionary zeal, and let them go forth to
diffuse light and knowledge far and near. Let them take the living
principles of health reform into the communities that to a large
degree are ignorant of these principles....
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After a time, as the work advances, schools will be established
in many cities, where workers can be quickly educated and trained
for service. The students and their teachers can go out with our
publications and spread the truth by means of the printed page.
Desirable places can be secured for meetings to be held, and here the
people can be invited to gather. Let those who are fitted for the work,
the young and middle-aged, act a disinterested, unselfish part in
laboring for the fields white for the harvest that are yet unworked.—
Manuscript 11, 1908.
Sanitariums Connected With Schools
In every place where schools are established we are to study
what industries can be started that will give the students employment.
Small sanitariums should be established in connection with our larger
schools, that the students may have opportunity to gain a knowledge
of medical missionary work. This line of work is to be brought into
our schools as part of the regular instruction.—
Letter 25, 1902
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Many Small Sanitariums
It is that thirsting souls may be led to the living water that we
plead for sanitariums, not expensive, mammoth sanitariums, but
homelike institutions, in pleasant places.
Never, never build mammoth institutions. Let these institutions
be small, and let there be more of them, that the work of winning
souls to Christ may be accomplished. It may often be necessary to
start sanitarium work in the city, but never build a sanitarium in a