Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

We must certainly arouse from our passive
position along these lines. Much may be learned by
visiting the hospitals. In these hospitals not a few
of our young people should be learning to be
successful medical missionaries in caring for the
sick intelligently. Observation, and the practice of
that which has been learned, will result in
consecrated youth becoming active, efficient
medical missionary workers. Many who could not
otherwise secure a training in these lines of work,
can thus prepare themselves for usefulness. But the
surgical work must be done by faithful, skilful
physicians.
May God help us to develop plans so that our
youth can become genuine medical missionaries.
We can not afford to allow our very best and most
promising young men and young women to drift to
Battle Creek, when we have before us the work of
establishing a smaller medical institution near
Washington at once. No time is to be lost. Call for
the best talent, and make arrangements for
conducting a nurses' training school. All that can
be done should be done to make a deep impression
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