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Where Shall I Obtain My Medical Education?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 17, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 41.

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“Where Shall I Obtain My Medical Education?”

By Editor

This is a question which is in the minds of many young men and women connected with this movement at the present time. With the establishment of a denominational medical school, which is now doing acceptable work, and whose graduates are able to obtain legal recognition, it would seem that there could be little occasion for questioning as to where Seventh-day Adventists should obtain a medical education.
The servant of the Lord has spoken definitely and specifically regarding the need of a medical school, and of the dangers which threaten our young men and women attending medical schools of the world. In harmony with that instruction, there has been established at Loma Linda an institution to provide this medical training. We believe that the providence of God has led in this enterprise, and also that the blessing of the Lord will attend our young people as they endeavor to secure their education and shape their experiences in harmony with the instruction which has come to us. Larger institutions with more liberal facilities may make their appeal to human judgment, but we believe it is safer to follow in the path of instruction than it is to follow the course of our own natural reasoning.
Much has already been given through the columns of the REVIEW regarding this enterprise. Elder I. H. Evans, president of the North American Division Conference, writes concerning it in the Editorial department of this number. The REVIEW of August 31 will be devoted to the interests of our college work in the United States. In this number Dr. Newton Evans, the president of the medical school, will set forth the needs and value of medical education, and the reason why Seventh-day Adventists should obtain such an education at Loma Linda.
We ask our young men and women to consider their relationship to this question, not in the light of caprice or personal desires or careless advice from friends, but in the light of the instruction which has come to us through the servant of the Lord.