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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 30, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 22.

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Medical Missionary Council

By Daniel H. Kress

No doubt our people everywhere are glad to receive the good news of the dedication and formal opening of the Washington Sanitarium. It is unnecessary to say that this Sanitarium will occupy an important place in our work, and that much will be expected of it. We trust therefore that our brethren everywhere will remember this institution and its workers at the throne of grace. Let us especially pray that God's blessing may in a marked manner attend the opening and dedication.
We are also looking forward with unusual interest to the medical missionary council to be held June 9-11, or just preceding the formal opening and dedication of the Washington Sanitarium. This council will be one of the most important in the history of our medical work. The time has come when it is necessary for the future prosperity of the medical work to have meetings where the representatives from our various medical institutions may counsel together and bring greater unity and gospel order into this work. It is possible to have our nurses' training-schools in the various institutions so unified and arranged that, teaching the same thing, and having the classes begin at the same time, it will be easy to make a transfer of nurses under training from one institution to another when thought best, without making a break in their studies.
We are certain God is at work, and that greater unity will be seen in all our work in the near future. Especially will this unity be seen between the gospel and the medical work. Man's extremity is always God's opportunity, and at the time when it might appear to some that confusion and hopelessness exist, the eye of faith can readily perceive an unseen hand controlling and regulating all, and working all after the counsels of God's own will.
There never was a time in the history of the medical work when the prospects for doing a great work were brighter than at present. God purposes to make his people a unit. How this may be brought about will be one of the matters that will receive consideration at the coming council. For the benefit of our institutions it is important to have all the medical superintendents present. We shall expect much of God's blessing at this meeting. D. H. KRESS.