The city of Asheville, North Carolina, was the place chosen for the field school experiment. Never have I had the joy of working with such a fine group of young men as the twelve ministerial students that were helping in "The Crusade for Christ." The course included health evangelistic classes and practical experience in seeing how medical evangelism really works as the right arm of our message. The young men and women studied how to present health in an attractive manner. Didactic studies took up our time in the morning, and in the afternoon we all went into the city to visit the people or conduct nutrition and hydrotherapy classes.
The testimonies of the students as to the response they received in the homes of the wealthy was ample proof that here was truly the key to open the doors in these cities. Attendance and interest kept growing, and the evening meetings were well attended. This summer I am looking forward to the second Field School of Evangelism, to be held in Birmingham, Alabama.
The second experience which I consider outstanding was encountered at the evangelistic effort held in Pittsburgh. Elder Vancleman and his helpers were in the midst of their intengive campaign for souls when arrangements were made for two medical workers to spend a few days with the company.
My lectures on the relationship of good health and good religion, together with a practical nutritional course given by Miss Bess Ninaj, R.N., found a most ready reception. More than two hundred women joined the cooking class. This gives you a small idea of how much interest was being created.
One of the features most appreciated, and probably the most unique, was a doctor and a minister sharing the pulpit on Sunday evening. The first half hour we spoke on Daniel i and true temperance. Elder Vandeman continued with Daniel 2 and the prophecies. This topic proved to be very effective in an effort previously held at the University of Maryland, and has already been reported in THE MINISTRY. As the people expressed their appreciation of the message they had heard, we could not help recalling this inspired statement:
"The importance of making our way in the great cities is still kept before me. . . . In this effort in behalf of the cities, we greatly need the co-operation of all classes of laborers. . . . If ministers and physicians will plan to unite in an effort to reach the honest-hearted ones in our cities, . . . God will open the way before them, and many will receive a saving knowledge of truth."—Medical Ministry, PP. 301-304.
Truly we are living in the day when the Lord would have doctors and ministers unite in finishing the task in these large cities.
