p. 24 | Physical Examination of Missionaries by T. E. BOWEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 4, 1910

Physical Examination of Missionaries

By T. E. BOWEN

CANDIDATES for foreign fields are frequently making application for appointment. The Mission Board requires a physician’s certificate of health before any candidate is voted to a distant field. It is also desirable that students who have been selected to connect with the Foreign Mission Seminary, expecting after a short period of training to be sent on to some field, should furnish a certificate of health before coming to Washington. In view of these requirements, on July 26 the General Conference Committee passed the following recommendation:—

“Voted, That we request all our physicians to give candidates for foreign fields a thorough physical examination, furnishing them with a written report of same without expense, whenever application is made by our prospective missionaries for such examination.”

This is a service to missions that is within the power of all our physicians, both in institutional and in private practice, to render; and we feel sure it is in their hearts to cheerfully give it. In return we know that the physician will receive the heartfelt thanks of the candidate volunteering for service in foreign fields, as well as the appreciation of the Mission Board.

T. E. BOWEN, Asst. Sec. Gen. Conf.