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Section 4—Our Medical College
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sionate Saviour, they will have rest of mind, which is so essential to
recovery of health.
Preparatory Education
It is because of these peculiar temptations which our youth must
meet in worldly medical schools that provision should be made for
preparatory and advanced medical training in our own schools, under
Christian teachers. Our larger union conference training schools
in various parts of the field should be placed in the most favorable
position for qualifying our youth to meet the entrance requirements
specified by state laws regarding medical students. The very best
teaching talent should be secured, that our schools may be brought
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up to the proper standard. The youth, and those more advanced in
years, who feel it their duty to fit themselves for work requiring the
passing of certain legal tests, should be able to secure at our union
conference training schools all that is essential for entrance into a
medical college.
Prayer will accomplish wonders for those who give themselves
to prayer, watching thereunto. God desires us all to be in a waiting,
hopeful position. What He has promised, He will do; and inasmuch
as there are legal requirements making it necessary that medical
students shall take a certain preparatory course of study, our colleges
should arrange to carry their students to the point of literary and
scientific training that is necessary.
And not only should our larger training schools give this prepara-
tory instruction to those who contemplate taking a medical course,
but we must also do all that is essential for the perfecting of the
courses of study offered by our Loma Linda College of Medical
Evangelists. As pointed out about the time this school was founded,
we must provide that which is essential to qualify our youth who
desire to be physicians, so that they may intelligently fit themselves
to stand the examinations required to prove their efficiency a physi-
cians. They should be taught to treat understandingly the cases of
those who are diseased, so that the door will be closed for any sen-
sible physician to imagine that we are not giving in our school the
instruction necessary for properly qualifying young men and women