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A Pressing Need

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 6, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 10.

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A Pressing Need

We owe it to our young people who desire a full preparation for medical work, to provide at the earliest possible moment the facilities necessary to enable our own Christian doctors to give a medical course equal to any in scientific lines, and so far superior in moral and spiritual lines that there can be no comparison. The world is full of those who need to be ministered unto—the weak, the helpless, the ignorant, the degraded. The continual transgression of man for nearly six thousand years has brought sickness, pain, and death as its fruit. Multitudes are perishing for lack of knowledge.
The world's need can not be met fully by the ministry of God's servants who preach the word. While it is well, as far as possible, for evangelical workers to learn to minister to the necessities of the body as well as of the soul, yet they can not spend all their time and strength in relieving those in need of help. There must be associated with these, Christian physicians and nurses who have received special training in the healing of disease and in soul-winning. Medical missionaries and workers in the gospel ministry are to be bound together by indissoluble ties. By their combined efforts the world is to be prepared for the second advent of Christ.
The students at Loma Linda are seeking for an education that is after the Lord's order, an education that will help them to develop into successful teachers and laborers for others. When their education at Loma Linda is completed, they should be able to go forth and join the intelligent workers in the world's great harvest-fields who are carrying forward the work of reform that is to prepare a people to stand in the day of Christ's coming.
We should do all in our power to enable those who desire to be thus fitted for service to gain the necessary training. The Lord has given us great advantages in bringing into our possession such an institution as Loma Linda. Let us co-operate with him in making this place a blessing to humanity. By liberal gifts let us say to the burden-bearers at Loma Linda, “Put up your hospital quickly.”
Let those who have money make in-