To Missionary Farmers!
By John Harvey Kellogg
The generous response on the part of our people everywhere to the efforts made by the General Conference for the raising of $100,000 with which to purchase the property of Battle Creek College for use as a medical missionary training school has been exceedingly encouraging to the Medical Missionary Board and to all interested in medical missionary work and in the education of medical missionaries. For several years the American Medical Missionary College, with one hundred and twenty students, and the Battle Creek Sanitarium Training School for Missionary Nurses, with from three to four hundred students, making a total of five or six hundred, has been carried on with no building especially devoted to the purpose, classes being held here and there, wherever place could be found for them, and students rooming all about the town, wherever a corner could be found to get them in. This year the medical college and the nurses’ training school have opened under circumstances most encouraging to both students and teachers. More than five hundred earnest, consecrated young men and women are on the ground, laboring earnestly to prepare themselves for the grand work which is opening up before them, and which is daily calling more loudly for workers. The new arrangements make it possible to receive a larger number. There is room for one hundred more young men and women to enter the missionary nurses’ training school. A few more could be received into the medical school. But there is special demand for consecrated young men and women to enter the nurses’ training school to prepare themselves for the different branches in this work, at home and abroad. The products of the missionary-farming effort are already coming in, and as fast as received are turned over to the Emmanuel Missionary College to be used in providing facilities for the training of missionaries in evangelical lines. Money raised in missionary farming does double duty. It provides a place for the International Medical Missionary Training School for Nurses by purchasing the college, and the purchase money is used for the building of a new school for the education of teachers, ministers, Bible workers, and other church work at Berrien Springs. Money is greatly needed, and it is hoped that those who are enlisted in this work will convert the products of their soil into cash as soon as can reasonably be done, and forward the same, to be applied in helping along the good work. In the recent organization of the International Medical Missionary Training School, Elder S. H. Lane, President of the General Conference Association, was elected treasurer, and all money should be sent to him, at Battle Creek, Mich. J. H. KELLOGG.