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Section 4—Our Medical College
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into successful teachers and laborers for others. When their educa-
tion at Loma Linda is completed, they should be able to go forth and
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join the intelligent workers in the world’s great harvest fields who
are carrying forward the work of reform that is to prepare a people to
stand in the day of Christ’s coming. Everywhere workers are needed
to know how to combat disease and give skillful care to the sick and
suffering. We should do all in our power to enable those who desire
to be thus fitted for service to gain the necessary training....
Our people should become intelligent in the treatment of sickness
without the aid of poisonous drugs. Many should seek to obtain the
education that will enable them to combat disease in its various
forms by the most simple methods. Thousands have gone down
to the grave because of the use of poisonous drugs, who might
have been restored to health by simple methods of treatment. Water
treatments, wisely and skillfully given, may be the means of saving
many lives. Let diligent study be united with careful treatments.
Let prayers of faith be offered by the bedside of the sick. Let the
sick be encouraged to claim the promises of God for themselves.—
Manuscript 15, 1911.
To Provide What Is Essential
The light given me is, We must provide that which is essential
to qualify our youth who desire to be physicians, so that they may
intelligently fit themselves to be able to stand the examinations
required to prove their efficiency as physicians. They should be
taught to treat understandingly the cases of those who are diseased,
so that the door will be closed for any sensible physician to imagine
that we are not giving in our school the instruction necessary for
properly qualifying young men and young women to do the work
of a physician. Continually the students who are graduated are to
advance in knowledge; for practice makes perfect.
The medical school at Loma Linda is to be of the highest order,
because those who are in that school have the privilege of main-
taining a living connection with the wisest of all physicians, from
whom there is communicated knowledge of a superior order. And
for the special preparation of those of our youth who have clear
convictions of their duty to obtain a medical education that will