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Do We Need a Thoroughly Equipped Medical School?

By Mrs. S. N. Haskell

MORE than forty years ago the need of training schools was recognized by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. It was plainly seen that if our young men were trained for the ministry, they must be educated in schools where the Bible was daily taught and must be surrounded by a spiritual atmosphere which would help them to be rooted and grounded in the truths of the message which makes us a separate people.

Young men educated in the popular theological colleges of the world are not prepared to proclaim the truths of the third angel's message. When we opened the first church schools, many thought that any teacher who was thoroughly trained in the State normal schools of the land could teach in the church schools; but it was soon discovered that although they could teach the sciences, yet they lacked the one essential thing,—they could not teach the Bible in such a manner that its principles were woven into all the lessons of the day. Soon it was demonstrated that if we made our church schools what God designed they should be, we must have normal training schools of our own, where those who were expecting to teach might have a special training for that work.

The Bible and the Testimonies recognize several classes of workers,—ministers, Bible workers, physicians, teachers, nurses, and colporteurs,—all of whom are necessary in proclaiming the last warning message to the world. For years we as a people have realized the importance of giving careful spiritual training to those engaging in all these lines of work, except the physician. We have failed to sense the importance of the work of the Christian physician. We quote from “Gospel Workers,” p. 360:

“The Christian physician should regard his work as exalted as that of the ministry. He bears a double responsibility; for in him are combined the qualifications of both physician and gospel minister. His is a grand, a sacred, and a very necessary work.”

In “Healthful Living,” p. 270, we find the following: “If you are a Christian and a competent physician, you are qualified to do tenfold more good as a missionary for God than if you were to go forth merely as a preacher of the word.”

Why have we guarded so carefully the education of our young ministers, and left a class which, if properly trained, could do tenfold more efficient work, to receive their training in worldly schools? “Physicians whose professional abilities are above those of the ordinary doctor, should engage in the service of God in the large cities. They should seek to reach the higher classes. . . . Medical missionaries who labor in evangelistic lines are doing a work of as high an order as are their ministerial fellow laborers.”—“Gospel Workers,” p. 360. Where are these workers in our large cities? They are not to be found.

There are many physicians scattered through the large cities, who were tenderly reared in godly Seventh-day Adventist homes. Many of them at first entered the ministry, but realizing the need of a medical training in order to do the work outlined by the servant of the Lord, they decided to take a medical course. If they could have entered a medical school in which the same spiritual influence prevailed that pervades our training schools for ministers, Bible workers, and church-school teachers, they would have come forth strong workers, capable of doing the work outlined in the quotations given above. But they were not given any such training. They were surrounded by evil influences until they first lost their burden for souls, and then their own hold on God, and today are out of the truth and lost to the cause of God.

In view of these facts, can any one say we do not need a medical school of our own, where our youth can be trained for God while receiving a medical education?

I fancy I hear some one say, “We cannot afford to equip a medical school.” The loss to the denomination in not having a medical school of our own is many times greater than the cost of equipping one. For years many of our young men have felt a burden to gain a medical education that they might have a part in the great work outlined by the Spirit of God; but they had no spiritual help while taking their training, and few came from the medical schools with a heart burdened for the work of God.

We grieve over the fact that the work in our large cities moves so slowly, and that so few of the higher classes are reached. On page 361 of “Gospel Workers” we are told how to reach them; but where are the godly “physicians whose professional abilities are above those of the ordinary doctor,” that have such a burden for souls that they will do the work God has said should be done?

“The medical school at Loma Linda is to be of the highest order, because we have a living connection with the wisest of all physicians, from whom there is communicated knowledge of a superior order. And whatever subjects are required as essential in the schools conducted by those not of our faith, we are to supply, so that our youth need not go to these worldly schools. Thus we shall close the door that the enemy would be pleased to have left open; and our young men and young women, whom the Lord would have us guard religiously, will not need to connect with worldly medical schools conducted by unbelievers.”

By equipping a medical school of our own of “the highest order,” “we shall close the door that the enemy would be pleased to have left open.” Let us help by our influence and our means to close this open door through which so many of our youth have wandered away from the fold of Christ.

Is it not time to come to the help of the Lord, and do this work? Parents who have children should surely sacrifice that this school may be promptly and thoroughly equipped. All who love the cause of God should give liberally, and help to close this “open door,” and prepare a training school so that our young men and women, “whom the Lord would have us guard religiously, will not need to connect with worldly medical schools conducted by unbelievers.”

MRS. S. N. HASKELL.

Medical Missionary Department

W. A. RUBLE, M. D. - - General Secretary

L. A. HANSEN - - Assistant Secretary

E. W. MILLER, M. D. - N. Am. Div. Secretary

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Emperor William of Germany was fifty-seven years of age January 27. The only formal observance of the event consisted of religious services. Congratulations were sent him from the heads of those nations allied with him during this war, and also by President Wilson.

— One third of the city of Bergen, Norway, a seaport of 90,000 population, was destroyed by fire on the night of January 15. The property damage is estimated at $15,000,000. The conflagration is said to have been the worst ever recorded in Norway. Twenty thousand persons were made homeless, and their condition rendered more serious because of the burning of the largest storage houses filled with provisions for supplying the surrounding country.

— Counterfeit metal money totaling over $25,000, and counterfeit bank notes amounting to over $45,000, were seized by the federal secret service in the last year. In all, 536 arrests were made. New York and Pennsylvania led in the number of counterfeiters arrested.

— The nation's harvests this year have surpassed any ever before recorded. The value of the principal farm crops, based on prices paid to farmers December 1, was announced recently by the Department of Agriculture in its final estimate, as $5,568,773,000, making 1915 a banner year both in value and in production of crops.

— The stringent new law affecting the sale of alcoholic drinks in London has been well received by the people of the largest city in the world. While the board of control has not decided upon absolute prohibition, the stringent regulations abolishing credit at the bars and restaurants, and forbidding treating, have promoted temperance among the workingmen.

— A striking feature of 1915 in the religious world was the record-breaking sale of American-printed Bibles in England, Australia, and South Africa, where heretofore Bibles made in England have been sold almost exclusively. This is due entirely to the war, and to the same cause is ascribed the fact that the United States now leads the world in the production and circulation of religious literature.

— To what an extent business is improving generally was indicated by dispatches recently published, announcing substantial wage increases in the cotton industries of northern New England, and in many lines of activity in New York. Literally millions of dollars are involved. The northern New England wage increase will average five per cent for all employees receiving $10 a week or under. The number of operatives affected by the increase is about 75,000, living in manufacturing centers of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

— A cable dispatch of January 24 stated that the floods in Holland were still serious. At Nieuwendam and Purmerend the waters were extending, and also at Landsmeer, where they are at a greater height than during the great floods in 1825. The strong current had torn off a great section of the pasture land, which was said to be floating like small islands on the flooded Landsmeer and the Oostzaan polders. Great numbers of cattle and domestic animals have been drowned. Many houses in the flooded districts will have to be rebuilt.

— President Wilson's appointment of Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston, to be associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, to succeed the late Justice Lamar, has been sent to the Senate for confirmation. Brandeis is a Jew, and a native of Kentucky. He has been prominent in public life for more than a decade, chiefly in great reform laws and operations affecting public utility and railroad corporations. He also has been a leader in the fight to wipe out child labor, to obtain better hours and better living conditions for industrial workers, and to improve the sanitation of large factories. He has acted as attorney without fee in great popular movements.

L. A. HANSEN

By L. A. HANSEN

THE Sanitarium Society of Missionary Nurses is an organization of the Glendale (Cal.) Sanitarium. Through it effective missionary work of considerable extent is being done in Los Angeles and its vicinity. The nurses are having interesting experiences, and the work is proving a blessing to them as well as to those among whom they work.

A class of sixteen nurses has recently been graduated. Before entering special fields these nurses will do city missionary work. Their experience should be valuable in helping to prepare for other work. Some of these will be available for conference employment, in connection with tent efforts, Bible work and nursing, treatment rooms, etc. Write to Dr. D. D. Comstock, Glendale, Cal., for particulars.

L. A. HANSEN

New Studies in the Correspondence School

By C. C. LEWIS

The Fireside Correspondence School is adding to its list of studies as fast as possible. Its latest additions are fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade Bible, logic, newspaper reporting and punctuation, and geology.

The Bible studies are based upon Mrs. McKibbin's Bible Lessons, and cover exactly the same ground as do our church schools. These studies are designed to meet the needs of our children who are still in the public schools and hence have no Bible study in school, and they will prove especially helpful in preparing such pupils to enter our academies.

Logic is the science of reasoning. It has been called the science of sciences because it is the foundation of all of them, their conclusions having all been reached through the application of its laws. Practically, no other subject is so generally used. All men, in private and in public life, reason about the enterprises in which they are engaged, and with their fellow men with whom they deal. But all men do not reason well. They may improve in their reasoning, however, by studying the principles upon which correct reasoning is based, and by having pointed out to them the fallacies into which men continually fall. Hence these studies are helpful to all persons of mature years and judgment, whether they be students, professional men, or laymen.

Newspaper reporting and punctuation is a happy combination. At first I thought of preparing a series of lessons on punctuation and capitalization. But my attention was recalled to the lessons on reporting prepared some four years ago by Walter L. Burgan and Carlyle B. Haynes, and given in lecture form by Brother Burgan to the students of many of our advanced schools. These lessons are eight in number, and the last treats of punctuation. After rereading them, I decided to make them the basis of a series of lessons on reporting, embracing, also, instruction on punctuation and capitalization and hints for those who write for the press. All who wish to improve in the art of preparing manuscript for publication should pursue this series of lessons.

Seventh-day Adventists have never fully appreciated the writings of Prof. George McCready Price on the subject of geology. Many do not know that Professor Price has made ready to our hands a manual of geology which would enable us to meet successfully on their own ground the arguments and objections of evolution. This book is entitled "The Fundamentals of Geology," and our latest course of lessons is based upon it.

Those who are interested in any of the foregoing subjects are requested to write for further information to the Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, D. C.

C. C. LEWIS, Principal.

California Conference Association

By J. L. McElhany; E. E. Parlin

The twentieth annual meeting of the California Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the regular forty-fifth annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at Mountain View, Cal., March 6-9, 1916, for the election of a board of seven trustees for the ensuing term, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. The first meeting will be called at 3 P. M., Monday, March 6, 1916.

J. L. McElhany, President. E. E. Parlin, Secretary.

Lake Union Conference

By L. H. Christian; A. N. Anderson

THE eighth biennial session of the Lake Union Conference will be held in the Battle Creek Tabernacle, at Battle Creek, Mich., March 7-14, 1916. The first meeting of the conference is to open at 9:30 A. M., Tuesday, March 7. Each local conference in the union is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and to an additional delegate for each one hundred and fifty of its membership.

L. H. CHRISTIAN, President.

A. N. ANDERSON, Secretary.

The Atlanta Sanitarium Association

By W. H. BRANSON; W. H. WILLIAMS

THE Atlanta Sanitarium Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at 10:30 A. M., Monday, April 3, 1916, at 508 East Fair St., Atlanta, Ga. At this session trustees will be chosen, amendments to the constitution will be made, and such other business transacted as may be proper to come before the meeting.

W. H. BRANSON, President.

W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.

The Southeastern Union Conference Association

By W. H. Branson; W. H. Williams

THE Southeastern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at 10:30 A. M., Monday, April 3, 1916, at 508 East Fair St., Atlanta, Ga. At this session trustees will be chosen, amendments to the constitution will be made, and such other business transacted as may be proper to come before the meeting.

W. H. BRANSON, President.

W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.

Columbia Union Conference Association

By B. G. WILKINSON; R. T. DOWSETT

THE legal meeting of the Columbia Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the auditorium of the Carnegie Library, Lang and Hamilton Avenues, Pittsburgh, Pa., in connection with the Columbia Union Conference, and will hold its first meeting at 10:45 A. M., Tuesday, March 14, 1916, for the transaction of such business as may come before the constituent body, which is composed of the delegates of the Columbia Union Conference.

B. G. WILKINSON, Chairman.

R. T. DOWSETT, Secretary.

Publications Wanted

By Editor

The persons named below desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for use in missionary work. In sending publications care should be exercised to select only such as are free from soil and disfigurement. We have been credibly informed that some who oppose this movement and the truths which it represents answer these requests for literature, and are sending to our brethren and sisters in various parts of the country tracts and papers representing their opposition. Our workers should be careful not to confound this literature with our denominational publications, and thus unwittingly become agents in sending out matter not printed in the interests of the cause of truth.

Mrs. R. B. Morse, Weiser, Idaho.

J. H. Downes, Y. M. C. A., Cornhill, London, E. C., England.

Thos. Montgomery, R. F. D. 7, Box 425, San Antonio, Tex.

H. O. Olsen, Broadview Swedish Seminary, La Grange, Ill. Nos. 1 and 4 of Liberty, Vol. I, 1906.

J. M. McLaughlin, Ft. Payne, Ala. Signs, Watchman, Liberty, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts on all subjects.

Requests for Prayer

An Oregon sister asks prayer for the healing of her husband and the conversion of her eighteen-year-old son.

Another sister in Oregon desires that prayer be offered for the restoration of her hearing; for her mother, that she may regain her eyesight at least enough to read her Bible; and for the conversion of her son and his family.

Obituaries

BOSTIC.— Mrs. Martha J. Bostic died in Bridger, Mont., Jan. 19, 1916, aged 74 years. She became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church about twenty years ago, and though isolated from those of like faith, was ever true to her sense of duty. U. BENDER.

CAINE.— Mrs. Sarah E. Caine died in Oakland, Cal., Dec. 29, 1915. She was born in Canton, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1839. Sister Caine accepted the third angel’s message over thirty years ago, and lived a consistent Christian life. She was the mother of five children, but only one son survives. C. E. FORD.

SHARITS.— Sister Ollie Strickland Sharits died in Athens, Tenn., Jan. 12, 1916. In 1913 she heard and accepted present truth, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church of Athens. Her husband and a number of other relatives mourn, but with the hope of a soon-coming Saviour. R. W. PARMELE.

MUNCEY.— Mrs. Carrie A. Muncey, of Cape May C. H., N. J., died Dec. 21, 1915, aged 38 years. She was a firm believer in the third angel’s message, and fell asleep hoping for a part in the first resurrection. The funeral service was in charge of the local Methodist clergyman. Her husband and five children mourn. GEORGE W. SPIES.

HOUX.— Martha Elizabeth Meers was born in Tennessee, July 7, 1837. The family moved to Cooper County, Missouri, in 1839, and she was married to Jacob S. Houx in 1855. She heard and accepted the third angel’s message in 1901, uniting with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. An aged husband and five children are left to mourn. W. L. KILLEN.

VAN BRUNT.— Mrs. Alice Van Brunt died in Jackson, Mich., Jan. 1, 1916. She was born in the State of New York. The light of present truth came to her about four years ago, when she gladly accepted it, and was active in church work to the last. We laid her to rest, with the full assurance that she will come forth at the resurrection of the just. D. P. WOOD.

ABOTT.— Martha Elizabeth Abott was born April 29, 1841. She was married in 1867, and became the mother of seven children, only two of whom are living. She died at Santa Cruz, Cal., Dec. 31, 1915. For twenty-five years she was a devout member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, active in missionary labor, and highly esteemed by all who knew her. C. E. FORD.

KRIEGER.— Jan. 13, 1916, Conrad Krieger died near Billings, Mont., aged 69 years. He was born in Russia. About eighteen years ago he heard and accepted the third angel’s message. He came to America nine years ago. His hope was steadfast to the end, and he committed all to Him who holds the keys of both heaven and the grave, hoping for a part in the first resurrection. U. BENDER.

TINNIN.— Mrs. Elizabeth Tinnin fell asleep in Jesus Jan. 19, 1916, at the home of her daughter, in Lodi, Cal., where she lived during the last seven years of her life. She was an energetic woman, a pioneer settler in the West, and the mother of ten children, five of whom are still living. At the time of her death she was nearly eighty-five years of age, but her mind was bright, and her trust in God steadfast. T. H. WATSON.

TWING.— Charles S. Twing was born in Colebrook, Conn., Dec. 21, 1853, and died at his home, in Sheffield, Mass., Jan. 12, 1916. Brother Twing was married in 1886 to Miss Ada Hart, and together they accepted the third angel’s message in 1894. He fell asleep in hope of being among those who have a part in the first resurrection. A wife, one daughter, and three sons, also three brothers and two sisters, are left to mourn. C. H. CASTLE.

The 1916 Year Book

IT CONTAINS a complete directory of the General Conference and all its departments, of the four division conferences, of the union conferences, and of every local conference and mission, with the name and address of every officer and laborer connected therewith.

IT LISTS the names of all educational institutions, with the names of boards of management, and the studies taught by each member of the faculty.

IT GIVES the members of all managing boards of publishing houses, the editors, the papers issued, their subscription price, size, frequency of publication, and other data.

IT PRESENTS a list of all sanitariums, treatment rooms, food factories, cafés, etc., with physicians, the members of all managing boards, and other officers.

IT ILLUSTRATES the growth of the denomination since its organization in 1863, by statistical tables, more complete than ever before, representing all departments of work; it also states by conferences the number of churches and their membership, as shown by the last published statistical report.

IT MAKES a survey of the field for the past year, prepared for this work by those in charge of the fields, in which many indications of progress are given.

IT INDICATES the location of churches in many of the larger cities in the North American Division.

IN FACT, the Year Book contains information respecting every laborer connected with this cause, indicating the line of work in which he is engaged, and his address; every institution under denominational control, and for easy reference a separate list for each union conference; and the growth of every department is represented statistically.

THE YEAR BOOK is therefore an indispensable compendium of information respecting this cause. No officer or other laborer can afford to be without it. With the many, many changes that have recently been made in organizations, the Year Book is more necessary now than ever before.

AND THE PRICE — Simply cut in two for your benefit. Now only twenty-five cents. Money lost on every copy, but the benefit comes back in other ways. Order your copy before the limited edition has been sold. Ready about March 1. Order from your tract society.

TEMPERANCE FORCES AT WORK

The Temperance Forces from Vermont to California are mobilizing and placing orders for a large supply of Temperance Instructors. Within a few days twelve conferences have each ordered 5,000 of these papers, and the following message from W. R. Andrews, president of the Eastern New York Conference, reveals the spirit and courage of the leaders of the temperance forces:—

“Today we have been laying plans to push the Temperance Instructor. I feel a burden to do this just now, for the reason that a bill has been introduced in the legislature of New York for State-wide prohibition. There is to be a hearing in March, and it promises to be one of the most interesting hearings held in this State this winter, so we are planning to push the Instructor. I hope to circulate at least 10,000 copies in this conference. We shall aim to do it. Am sure we can.

“I went out the other day just a little while to test the Instructor. The first man I called on was a Methodist minister. I sold him 25 copies at 10 cents each. I averaged 12 copies an hour from door to door. I found it to be about the easiest thing to sell that I ever tried.”

Eastern New York will succeed, because the president is setting the pace.

Liberty Bell Cracked

But the Liberty Magazine still contends for the principles that caused the cracking of the old bell; and it has many friends everywhere, and strong support from those who still have the spirit of our forefathers, manifested in the following letter:—

Editors of Liberty Magazine.

By chance, on a train in Idaho, I picked up the Liberty Magazine, which I had not seen or heard of previously. I am so infused with its teachings that I send you six cents in stamps for a copy of the first quarter of 1916. The old Liberty Bell is cracked, and from the present outlook the principles of our forefathers are being set aside and derided. I hope, in God, you may continue this publication in behalf of religious freedom. Anything I may be able to do in this direction will be cheerfully done.

[Signed]

REV. J. S. FERRIS,

Box 6,

Rye Valley, Oregon.

Pacific Press Publishing Association

By Editor

WE have received from the Pacific Press Publishing Association a pamphlet of seventy-six pages, giving the report of the work accomplished by that association for the year ending Dec. 31, 1915. Our sister publishing house has been greatly blessed in being able very materially to increase the circulation of its journals and the output of its books. The report of the treasurer showed a net gain for the year 1915 of over $37,000, making the present worth of the association $266,680. The following-named persons were elected directors of the association for the ensuing year: C. H. Jones, H. H. Hall, H. G. Childs, M. C. Wilcox, J. L. McElhany, James Cochran, and B. M. Shull. The board organized by selecting C. H. Jones president, H. H. Hall vice president, H. G. Childs secretary and treasurer, and J. J. Ireland auditor.

Managers and department heads were selected as follows: General manager, C. H. Jones; first assistant manager, H. G. Childs; second assistant manager, James Cochran; manager book department, H. H. Hall; assistant manager book department, James Cochran; manager periodical department, James Cochran; manager foreign literature department, H. H. Hall; art director, F. H. Gage; cashier, T. F. Culhane. Branch office managers: Kansas City office, S. N. Curtiss; Portland office, G. C. Hoskin; Calgary office, J. M. Rowse; College View office, F. F. Byington; circulation manager College View office, J. R. Ferren.

The editors selected are as follows: Signs of the Times weekly, A. O. Tait; assistant, L. E. Froom. Signs of the Times Magazine, M. C. Wilcox. Our Little Friend, Miss K. B. Wilcox; associate, Mrs. V. J. Farnsworth.

We rejoice in the prosperity that has attended the work of our sister association, and pray that the good success of the last year may be but an earnest of greater prosperity in the years to come.

Religious Liberty Day Program

THE Religious Liberty Department has prepared a soul-stirring program for Religious Liberty Day, February 26. This program appears in the February number of the Church Officers' Gazette. We hope that every church elder will arrange for this program to be carried out at the time of the regular Sabbath service. At this service opportunity should be given for an offering to meet the needs of the local field.

Help Needed in Manchuria

BROTHER B. PETERSEN, laboring in Manchuria, tells of receiving four letters in one day, urging that help be sent as soon as possible. These requests came from a place fifty miles from Mukden, where the people are very anxious to learn more about the truth. Brother Petersen was making preparations to do what he could to help them. It is hoped soon to open a chapel at this new place.

“Armageddon”

WORK on the new book “Armageddon,” which was announced in the REVIEW of February 10, is progressing splendidly. About seventy especially fine illustrations have been secured. The book will be more fully illustrated than was “The World’s Crisis.” It has taken a little more time to arrange for some of these illustrations than was at first anticipated, so the publication of the book will be delayed until about March 10, rather than March 1, as was announced.

There should be a half million copies of this book sold during the present year. Every one will want a copy. Send your order at once to your tract society, and thus have the privilege of securing one of the first copies off the press.

“The Other Side of Death”

THIS is the title of a new book which the Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tenn., announces will be ready for delivery April 1. In size and style this book will be similar to “The World’s Crisis” and “The Vatican and the War.” It will be well illustrated. The following is a list of chapter headings:—

The Subject Introduced.
Absolute and Conditional Life.
Immortality.
The Creation of Man.
Death.
The Wages of Sin.
The Punishment of the Wicked.
The Punishment of the Wicked (concluded).
Spiritualism.
The Second Coming of Christ.
The Millennium.
The Destruction of Sin and Death.
The Reward of the Righteous.

The publishers believe that this book will be of especial value in connection with tent meetings and other gospel efforts. Prices: cloth, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents. Regular subscription book discounts when ordered in quantities. Orders should be sent to your tract society.

An Error Corrected

By an oversight, Note 1 in the Sabbath school lessons on the book of Matthew for Feb. 19, 1916, was made to read that the prophetic period of 2300 days began “in the spring of 457 B. C.” This is an error, and should read, “in the autumn of 457 B. C.,” this being the time when Ezra and his company reached Jerusalem to carry the royal decree into effect.

SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.

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