Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

I am obliged to say that the making of so large
a plant in Battle Creek, and the calling together of
those who should be engaged in medical
missionary work in many places, is doing just what
God has specified should not be done.
The fact that many patients are coming to the
new sanitarium at Battle Creek is not to be read as
a sign that the planning for so large a work there
was for the best. To this large institution will come
many men and women who are not really sick.
Workers will be required to wait on them; our
nurses will become the servants of worldly men
and women who are not inclined to piety or
religion. But this is not the work that God has
given to his medical missionaries. Our charge has
been given us by the greatest Medical Missionary
that this world has ever seen. Standing but a step
from His Father's throne, Christ said to his
disciples:
"All power is given unto me in heaven and in
earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
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