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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
drugs and in harmony with the light that God has given. In the treat-
ment of the sick, poisonous drugs need not be used. Students should
come forth from the school without having sacrificed the principles
of health reform or their love for God and righteousness.
The education that meets the world’s standard is to be less and
less valued by those who are seeking for efficiency in carrying the
medical missionary work in connection with the work of the third
angel’s message. They are to be educated from the standpoint of
conscience, and, as they conscientiously and faithfully follow right
methods in their treatment of the sick, these methods will come to be
recognized as preferable to the methods to which many have become
accustomed, which demand the use of poisonous drugs.
We should not at this time seek to compete with worldly medical
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schools. Should we do this, our chances of success would be small.
We are not now prepared to carry out successfully the work of
establishing large medical institutions of learning. Moreover, should
we follow the world’s methods of medical practice, exacting the
large fees that worldly physicians demand for their services, we
would work away from Christ’s plan for our ministry to the sick.
There should be at our sanitariums intelligent men and women
who can instruct in Christ’s methods of ministry. Under the in-
struction of competent, consecrated teachers the youth may become
partakers of the divine nature and learn how to escape the corruption
that is in the world through lust. I have been instructed that we
should have many more women who can deal especially with the
diseases of women, many more lady nurses who will treat the sick
in a simple way without the use of drugs.
It is not in harmony with the instruction given at Sinai that
gentlemen physicians should do the work of midwives. The Bible
speaks of women at childbirth being attended by women, and thus
it ought always to be. Women should be educated and trained to
act skillfully as midwives and physicians to their sex. This is the
Lord’s plan. Let us educate ladies to become intelligent in the work
of treating the diseases of their sex. We ought to have a school where
women can be educated by women physicians to do the best possible
work in treating the diseases of women. Among us as a people the
medical work should stand at its highest.