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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 30, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 18.

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College of Medical Evangelists

By W. A. Ruble, M. D., President

ONE of the most encouraging meetings of the board and constituency of the College of Medical Evangelists was held March 25-29, 1914, at Loma Linda, Cal. Many members of the General Conference and North American Division Conference, as well as many other members of the constituency, were present. Among those in attendance were the following: I. H. Evans, W. A. Spicer, W. T. Knox, R. D. Quinn, B. G. Wilkinson, Chas. Thompson, O. Montgomery, S. E. Wight, G. F. Watson, G. B. Thompson, E. E. Andross, C. W. Flaiz, H. S. Shaw, M. N. Campbell, J. J. Ireland, W. A. Ruble, F. Griggs, E. W. Farnsworth, J. H. Behrens, C. H. Jones, W. C. White, C. E. Weaks, M. C. Wilcox, Claude Conard, C. L. Taggart, L. M. Bowen, F. M. Burg, M. E. Cady, W. W. Eastman, W. L. Burgan, P. I. Richardson, H. G. Childs, V. H. Lucas, J. A. Burden, S. S. Merrill, G. K. Abbott, T. J. Evans, Julia A. White, R. S. Owen, Luther Warren, Josephine Gotzian, C. Santee, G. A. Snyder, and C. McReynolds.
After extended prayerful consideration, the following recommendations concerning the policy for the future of the college were adopted:—
"1. That two courses be conducted for the preparation of advanced medical evangelists:—
"a. A full medical course that will enable students to pass the State medical examinations as prescribed by law.
"b. A three-year medical evangelistic course giving special preparation in evangelistic lines, with sufficient medical education to enable the graduates therefrom to engage in active medical missionary service.
"2. That the instructors carrying principal responsibilities in the college be men and women who give their entire time to the work of the school and the denomination on a regular missionary wage.
"3. That at least three years of the medical course be conducted at Loma Linda. That two years, or such part thereof as seems advisable, be conducted in Los Angeles in dispensary and hospital practice, as a part of the college. We recommend that as full privileges as possible be secured for the college in the county hospital in Los Angeles.
"4. a. That in the way of support the resources at Loma Linda be developed to their fullest extent to meet the expense of the school, and that the board take immediate steps to place the institution in such condition as to accomplish that end, giving as full heed to the report of the finance commission as is practicable.
"b. That for the immediate future the North American Division Conference be requested to appropriate $10,000 during 1915 and $10,000 during 1916 for the support of the college. That the Pacific Union Conference and its local conferences and institutions be asked to make up an appropriation of $5,000 in 1914 and $5,000 in 1915 and $5,000 in 1916 toward the support of the college.
"c. That we urge that the work in Los Angeles be so planned as to bring financial returns for medical work that will make the city department self-supporting.
"5. That we instruct the management of Loma Linda to bring the expenses of the school within these provisions, cutting back work temporarily if required, in order to avoid increasing liabilities for current operation of the school.
"6. That beginning with 1917 the allied interests in Loma Linda and Los Angeles aim to become fully self-supporting.
"Recommended, That the tuition in the college be raised to $125 a year, not including fees; this to apply to students entering in 1914 and thereafter."
It will be readily seen that this action places the College of Medical Evangelists on a more secure and favorable basis than ever before.
The provisions made during this late meeting at Loma Linda have given great courage to those who are endeavoring to promote the work of this college. Plans are laid for carrying on the work of the school in a stronger way than ever before. With this provision for our medical school, is it not time that every Seventh-day Adventist student seeking a medical training secure it in our own college, and not in outside institutions? If only those who are attending other schools were in our own medical school, the income of the college would be increased several thousand dollars each year. This of itself would greatly assist in the support of the school. Then, too, of much more importance than the financial consideration is the matter of educating our young people medically for work in the third angel's message. The principles of health reform and of rational methods of treating disease, largely without drugs, is of great importance. It has been for these reasons that the denomination, at great expense, has provided a medical college. Is it not time that the support of all our people be turned to this school as to other schools of the denomination?
Students desiring to enter this fall, even if they have some preparatory subjects to make up, should correspond with the college at once. Further information in reference to the college will be given next week.
W. A. RUBLE, M. D., President.