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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 17, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 3.

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By W. A. R.

(See “Testimony,” No. 35)
“If in this great center [New York] medical missionary work could be established by men and women of experience, those who would give a correct representation of true medical missionary principles, it would have great power in making a right impression on the people.”—Page 37.
“Every city is to be entered by workers trained to do medical missionary work.”—Page 59.
“In foreign countries many enterprises for the advancement of this message must yet be begun and carried forward. The opening of hygienic restaurants and treatment rooms, and the establishment of sanitariums for the care of the sick and the suffering, is just as necessary in Europe as in America. In many lands, medical missions are to be established to act as God’s helping hand in ministering to the afflicted.
“Christ co-operates with those who engage in medical missionary work. Men and women who unselfishly do what they can to establish sanitariums and treatment rooms in many lands will be richly rewarded.”—Page 51.
The preceding quotations intimate the scope of our medical missionary work for which we are to plan. Some have the idea that altogether too many of our young people are preparing for this branch of the work. This can not be true, especially in the preparation of nurses, if we comply with the foregoing specifications. An increasing number of calls is coming from all parts of the world for consecrated medical missionaries. Young men nurses are especially in demand. Fewer young men are turning their attention to the nursing work than formerly, whereas the demand for these is multiplying. Reference to our list of calls for nurses shows a dozen or more openings in institutions for head nurses, and calls for nurses in bath rooms, treatment rooms, and for private practise are numerous. “I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one,” comes to us with as much force to-day as it did to those who lived eighteen centuries ago. There is a call for young men, young men who are strong physically and spiritually, to enter the medical work as nurses. W. A. R.