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Section 4—Our Medical College
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It is for the training of such workers, as well as for the training of
physicians, that the school at Loma Linda has been founded. In this
school many workers are to be qualified with the ability of physi-
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cians, to labor, not in professional lines as physicians, but as medical
missionary evangelists. This training is to be in harmony with the
principles underlying true higher education. The cause is in need
of hundreds of workers who have received a practical and thorough
education in medical lines, and who are also prepared to labor from
house to house as teachers, Bible workers, and colporteurs. Such
students should come out of the school without having sacrificed the
principles of health reform or their love for God and righteousness.
Those who take advanced training in nursing and go forth into all
parts of the world as medical missionary evangelists, cannot expect
to receive from the world the honor and the rewards that often come
to fully accredited physicians. Yet as they go about their work of
teaching and of healing, and link up closely with God’s servants who
have been called to the ministry of His word, His blessing will rest
upon their labors, and marvelous transformations will be wrought.
In a special sense they will be His helping hand.—
Counsels to
Parents, Teachers, and Students, 471
To Prepare for Many Lines of Work
There is a very precious work to be done in connection with the
interests of the sanitarium and school at Loma Linda; and this will
be done when all work to that end. The word of God is to be our
lesson book. In the unity that is coming in among our people we can
see that God is working in our midst....
In our school at Loma Linda many can be educated to work
as missionaries in the cause of health and temperance. The best
teachers are to be employed in this educational work—not men
who esteem highly their own capabilities, but men who will walk
circumspectly, depending wholly upon the Lord....
If the teachers in medical lines will stand in their lot and place,
we shall see a good work done. My soul is drawn out in earnest
prayer to God that He will preserve the honest in heart from being
led astray by those who are themselves in confusion and darkness.