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the school that must be carried on there. As they go forward in faith,
the Lord will go before them, preparing the way.
In regard to the school I would say: Make it especially strong
in the education of nurses and physicians. In medical missionary
schools many workers are to be qualified with the ability of physi-
cians to labor as medical missionary evangelists. This training, the
Lord has specified, is in harmony with the principles underlying true
higher education. We hear a great deal about the higher education.
The highest education is to follow in the footsteps of Christ, pat-
terning after the example He gave when He was in the world. We
cannot gain an education higher than this, for this class of training
will make men laborers together with God.
To have the higher education is to have a living connection
with Christ. The Saviour took the unlearned fishermen from their
boats and their fishing nets and connected them with Himself as He
traveled from place to place, teaching the people and ministering to
their needs. Sitting down on a rock or on some elevated place, He
would gather His disciples about Him and give them instruction, and,
before long, hundreds of people would be listening to His words.
There are many men and women who suppose that they know all
that is worth knowing, when they greatly need to sit humbly at the
feet of Jesus and learn of Him who gave His life that He might
redeem a fallen world. We all need Christ—the One who left the
royal courts, laying off His kingly robe and crown and His majesty
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in the heavens, and clothing Himself with humanity. The Son of
God came as a little babe, that He might understand the experiences
of humanity and know how to deal with them. He knows the wants
of the children. In the days of His earthly ministry He would not
allow them to be forbidden to come to Him. Send them not away,
He said to His disciples, “for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
In the work of the school maintain simplicity. No argument is
so powerful as is success founded on simplicity. You may attain
success in the education of students as medical missionaries without
a medical school that can qualify physicians to compete with the
physicians of the world. Let the students be given a practical educa-
tion. The less dependent you are upon worldly methods of education,
the better it will be for the students. Special instruction should be
given in the art of treating the sick without the use of poisonous