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Section 4—Our Medical College
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chosen to stand as His representatives. He used women to gain great
and decisive victories. More than once in times of emergency He
brought them to the front and worked through them for the salvation
of many lives....
There are many who have ability to stand with their husbands in
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sanitarium work, to give treatments to the sick, and to speak words
of counsel and encouragement to others. There are those who should
seek an education that will fit them to act the part of physicians.
In this line of service a positive work needs to be done. Women
as well as men are to receive a thorough medical training. They
should make a special study of the diseases common to women,
that they may understand how to treat them. It is considered most
essential that men desiring to practice medicine shall receive the
broad training necessary for the following of such a profession. It is
just as essential that women receive such training, and obtain their
diplomas certifying their right to act as physicians.
Our institutions should be especially thorough in giving to
women a training that will fit them to act as midwives. There should
be in our sanitariums lady physicians who understand well their
profession, and who can attend women at the time of childbirth.
Light has been given me that women instead of men should take
the responsibility in such cases. I was directed to the Bible plan, in
which at such times women acted the part of the physician. This
plan should be carried out by us; for it is the Lord’s plan.
Again and again light has been given me that women should
be chosen and educated for this line of work. Now the time has
come when we should face the matter clearly. More women should
be educated for this work, and thus a door of temptation may be
closed. We should allow no unnecessary temptation to be placed
in the way of physicians and nurses, or the people for whom they
minister.—
Letter 22, 1911
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No Compromise
I am instructed to say that in our educational work there is to
be no compromise in order to meet the world’s standards. God’s
commandment-keeping people are not to unite with the world to