Medical Service at Camp-Meetings
By O. B. Kuhn
Nurses from the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium visited camp-meetings held at Corry, Pa., Hamilton, Ohio, and Charleston, W. Va. The sick were cared for, and instruction was given in the proper treatment and prevention of disease. In public talks and private conversations extreme teachings were avoided. Healthful living was presented not as a religious requirement, or act of penance, but in its physiological relation to intellectual and spiritual development. The subject was brought before the people as taught in the “Ministry of Healing” and the Testimonies, which is witnessed to by scientific teaching. The book “Ministry of Healing” was recommended, and all were urged to study it and apply it to the daily life. This book is designed not only to bring relief to indebted sanitariums, but especially to relieve God’s suffering people who through lack of knowledge or otherwise are afflicted because of transgression of nature’s laws. Every Seventh-day Adventist should have a copy of this most practical book. The relation between the physical, mental, and moral natures, and the effects of health and disease upon the intellectual and spiritual life were studied. The favorable influence of healthful and temperate living upon spirituality was especially noticed. Attention was called to our sanitariums. It was shown that the first purpose in their establishment was that the sick among us might have proper care without loss to their peculiar religious faith and conduct. A place where Bible truth would be exalted and taught, and where instruction in health and hygiene could be given for the future benefit of the patient in home life. The danger, physically and spiritually, of trusting ourselves or loved ones to unchristian physicians, or to a worldly institution, was pointed out. References were made to “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. I, pages 485-495, and Vol. V, pages 191-199, 439-449. The Lord calls us out of Egypt. He is seeking to prepare a people for translation. Shall we not cooperate with him?