Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Many of the men and women who should be
out in the field, working as medical missionary
evangelists, helping those engaged in the gospel
ministry, are collected in Battle Creek, acting over
the same program that has been acted over in the
past, confining the forces, binding them up in one
place. God has spoken against this by sending His
judgments upon the institutions in Battle Creek; but
notwithstanding this, every movement on the part
of those striving to heed the warnings by laboring
to change the order of things, has been made very
hard because of the misconception of some
regarding the way in which the medical missionary
work should be carried forward.
God has not given us the work of erecting
immense sanitariums, to be used as health resorts
for all who may come. Neither is it his purpose that
medical missionary workers shall spend a long
term of years in college before they enter the field.
To build up a school in Battle Creek, as some of
our people there desire, would tend to counterwork
the influence that God has declared should be
exerted on his people in these last days of this
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