An Appeal for Right Training by G. K. Abbott

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

An Appeal for Right Training

By G. K. Abbott

When a Seventh-day Adventist is ill, he wishes to be cared for by a physician who has been thoroughly trained in natural methods of treatment, and whose faith and practise is not dependent on drugs.

We wish the same for our neighbors to whom we recommend our sanitariums. We might as well expect properly to educate our ministers in the theological schools of the world by afterward giving them a six months' course in Bible doctrines, as to expect our physicians to learn natural methods of treating the sick after they have spent four or five years in the medical schools and hospitals of the world. Right principles and methods can not be tacked on after the education is finished. They must be inground and interwoven from the very first day the student enters school until the last day before graduation, and especially during the last half of his course, when he gains his practical knowledge of treating the sick.

Shall we not help train our young men and women in these physiologic methods by giving of our means to assist in providing the necessary facilities for a medical school in which they can be properly trained? Does not the Lord hold us all responsible for the training we might, by a little sacrifice, provide for our physicians? G. K. ABBOTT, M. D.