Those Worthy Objectives
T. R. FLAIZ, M.D. Secretary, General Conference Medical Department
The application blank on which we asked for admission to the College of Medical Evangelists contains a statement of our reasons for wishing to study medicine. Practically without exception, this state ment records in most convincing form the aspirations of the applicant to prepare for more effective missionary endeavor. We may reasonably suppose that in most cases these expressions of good purpose are sincere, but successful heavy practice, and the demands of growing business and social contacts, are some times permitted to crowd out well-designed plans for missionary endeavor. Many a good Christian physician tells himself that his high class medical work is of itself a service which repays the sacrifices of his professors, clinicians, and instructors that these services make the multithousand-dollar denominational investment in his education well worth while.
The College of Medical Evangelists was born because Seventh-day Adventists forty years ago calculated that the addition of a corps of missionary-minded physicians to the denominational working force would be of such value as to justify the large expenditure involved. There was no thought that all the graduates of the school would be denominationally employed. It was anticipated, however, that there would be scattered across this country and in other lands those who would by their excellent professional achievements and their Christian lives advance the gospel program.
In the intervening years, Seventh-day Adventists have spent millions of dollars in subsidy to the school. Every graduate of the College of Medical Evangelists has received several thou sand dollars of denominational subsidy for his education, just as every university medical graduate has been subsidized by the state or other sponsoring organization. Although some have failed to yield appropriate account of their stewardship of this investment, Seventh-day Adventists in the 1953 Fall Council reaffirmed their confidence in the value of the College of Medical Evangelists and her hundreds of loyal missionary-minded sons and daughters in the home country and scattered in far corners of the world.
More Effective Distribution
In recent years a much larger portion of the College of Medical Evangelists' men and women are recognizing the need of the field generally, and are leaving the shelter of the home nest of southern California and venturing out into the Midwest, the Eastern States, the provinces of Canada, and to outlying dependencies. It is a well-recognized fact that we apply ourselves to the work before us in proportion to the urgency of the work and the extent to which that work depends on us personally. As a natural consequence of this fact, we generally find the most fruitful yield of missionary activity per doctor in places where the physician stands most nearly alone in his home church or community.
In harmony with this line of thinking, the great majority of our recent graduates are finding their fields of service out in areas where the need is greatest. A significant number of our graduates in the congested areas about the school are finding great satisfaction in challenging situations in the South, in the East, and in Canada. Where, but a few years ago, we had only a handful of physicians in Florida, there are now nearly fifty College of Medical Evangelists men scattered through the churches of that conference. The same could be said of Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Missouri has attracted twenty physicians in the comparatively recent past. Michigan, Colorado, Texas, and Maryland each have an excellent representation of our College of Medical Evangelists graduates. The New England States, New York, Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces are typical of areas where excellent progress is evident in strengthening the medical representation in our churches.
It may not be in Africa or India that God would have us fulfill the pledge or statement of purpose that was a factor in our admission to the College of Medical Evangelists. Perhaps we should be searching out that needy community in the New England States or in the Mid west, or perhaps some should be returning to Canada, where we have some of our most successful young physicians.
What about that application-blank pledge of that takes people out to these sometimes rugged ten, twenty, or perhaps thirty years ago?
The Medical Worker on the Gospel Team
CARL SUNDIN Associate Secretary, General Conference Medical Department
All who thoughtfully read the reports of soul-winning exploits from our medical workers, presented in this issue of THE MINISTRY, will be greatly heartened. These reports graphically portray the potentialities in enlarged soul winning when the medical arm is made an integral part of the ministry of the church.
We have a rich heritage in basic concepts of what constitutes the ministry. In the writings of Ellen G. White and actions of the General Conference Committee the medical arm is conceived as intimately associated with the ministry of the word in carrying out the gospel com mission. This is but a reflection of the concepts upon which Christ established His ministry when He set about to do the will of His Father.
These concepts are clearly outlined early in His ministry, concurrently with the calling of the first disciples. In Matthew 4 the record states that He "went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases among the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them" (verses 23, 24). Having thus established the pattern for His ministry, He never varied it. He always combined the three aspects of ministry teaching, preaching, and healing. Furthermore, He also passed on to His disciples this concept of the ministry. The record in Matthew 10:1 reads, "And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." More JULY, 1954 than that, He also passed on this concept to the seventy. Luke records it thus: "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Therefore said he unto them," "Heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you" (Luke 10:1, 2, 9).
Jesus understood the total needs of man, which include his intellectual needs, his spiritual needs, and his physical needs. It has taken modern medicine many years to recognize that man cannot be dealt with by compartmentalizing him that all his needs are interdependent and interrelated. In leading medical circles it is now an accepted fact that if a man is to be helped in his physical needs he must be simultaneously helped in his mental and spiritual needs. This was Jesus' way. He healed their physical ills so that He might reach them mentally and spiritually.
No one ever faced such odds as Christ in the assignment given Him. Not only did He have a specific task to perform, but by prophecy the exact time for its completion was foretold. Not only did He have the world's greatest task to perform, but He had a deadline to meet. So successful was He in accomplishing His mission, however, that He could say just before He was taken by the mob, "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do" (John 17:4).
Remnant Church to Work as Christ Did
Just as Christ was sent into the world to carry out His assignment, so Christ has sent us into the world to do our appointed work. In His prayer He says, "As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you" (John 20:21).
It is evident, then, that Christ meant that we are to accomplish our assignment on the same basis which brought success to Him that of combining teaching, preaching, and healing in one complete ministry. "We are to follow the path . . . trodden by Christ." Medical Ministry, p. 20.
God's messenger to the remnant of His church has written much regarding this team relation ship. With earnestness she states, "If ever the Lord has spoken by me, He speaks when I say that the workers engaged in educational lines, in ministerial lines, and in medical missionary lines must stand as a unit, all laboring under the supervision of God, one helping the other, each blessing each." Testimonies, vol. 9, pp. 169, 170. Our assignment will be ac complished by the coordination of the three classes of workers on the gospel team.
There is an especially close relationship be tween the gospel worker and the medical worker. We are told that "the medical missionary work and the gospel ministry . . . are bound together in sacred union as one work, and are never to be divorced." Counsels on Health, p. 528. They are to team up to bring to ailing mankind a ministry that fills the need of both body and soul. "The Lord has specified that the two shall be as closely connected as the arm is with the body. Without this union neither part of the work is complete. The medical missionary work is the gospel in illustration." Testimonies, vol. 6, pp 240, 241. The leaders in the scientific world are be ginning to recognize the importance of spiritual influences on the well-being of man. In a dedication address to a graduating class of the Syracuse University, College of Medicine, Henry Asbury Christian, M.D., an eminent professor of Harvard Medical School, put it this way:
"The physician will always need the support of true religion. A simple faith in God and His ways should emanate from all true physicians. If he believes not, this will be impossible. The believing physician can often bring into perfection a cure not otherwise obtainable. There is no place in this profession for the agnostic or the atheist."
May God help us to effect a closer relation ship between medical workers and the gospel ministry, that we shall be strengthened thereby to finish the task that He has assigned us.
The Medical Missionary Church
DANIEL H. KRESS, M.D.
The combination of the medical, evangelistic, and spiritual work is not a modern idea. Among God's people anciently these two were combined. The priest looked after the physical well-being of the people as well as after their spiritual needs. So well informed was he that he was able to make a diagnosis of diseases that might threaten an epidemic in the camp of Israel, and he also gave instruction as to what should be done in regard to isolation and dis infection. The matter of diet was considered of special importance. God had purposed to make of Israel a healthy and holy people and a kingdom of priests. To bring this about necessitated reforms in their habits of eating. They were taught that what an individual ate and drank had much to do with what he was physically and spiritually, and that there existed an intimate relation between health and holiness.
When Jesus made His appearance, priests were devoting their time exclusively to things termed spiritual, leaving the health phase to Page 6 the medical profession. Between these two there existed a great gulf. Priests and Levites, in devoting their time to what were considered things spiritual, passed by the sufferer by the wayside and ignored his needs. Ministering to the physical needs was not considered to be a part of their work. A commoner who came along had compassion upon the sufferer and ministered to his needs, bound up his wounds and took him to an inn, where he could have the attention he needed. To the priest and the Levite Jesus said: "Go, and do thou like wise." What God had pined together should never have been put asunder.
In the ministry of Christ these two again blended. He "went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." He also instructed those He healed in regard to the causes of their illness and then sent them home to their friends as missionaries. In sending forth the medical evangelists He had in training, He said: "Heal the sick . . . and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you." In their minis try, as in that of their Teacher, the two phases were combined. In reading the Gospel According to St. Matthew, the evangelist, and the Gospel According to St. Luke, the doctor, it is difficult to determine which was written by the evangelist and which was written by the physician, so perfectly did the two phases of ministry blend. The evangelist was a healer and the physician was an evangelist.
Today there are many whose palsied stomachs and livers can never be healed until the palsied mind is healed. To make physical healing possible in such cases, they must hear the words, "Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." Diet alone, essential as it is, will not greatly benefit this class. They need in addition mental and spiritual healing. On the other hand, many there are who are depressed men tally or are spiritually discouraged, and possibly think they have committed the unpardonable sin, when they are merely suffering the results of wrong habits of eating. They cannot be helped very much spiritually unless their dietetic errors are corrected.
The ministry of Christ, the Great Healer, was preceded by the teaching of John the Baptist, who came neither eating nor drinking as did the people about him. He was a food reformer, and a teacher of reforms. Those who rejected this message of reform placed themselves where they were mentally unable to receive the spiritual message borne by Christ. The workers sent forth by Christ to help the people were prepared to help them both physically and spiritually.
Similar Work Needed Today
We believe that those who are sent forth in these days to prepare a people for the coming of Christ should be prepared to do a similar work. A place is needed where the necessary attention can be given physically and spiritually to the suffering. This explains why we have sanitariums and treatment rooms.
More than sixty years ago, after having been a Baptist minister, I became identified with this church. To qualify as a medical missionary I took a course in medicine. At that time there were but two or three sanitariums conducted by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. One, located at Battle Creek, became world famous, and another, at St. Helena, California, also became an institution of fame. The physicians connected with this educational health movement at that time could have been counted on my two hands, and there were possibly not more than fifty registered nurses.
Today there are many sanitariums and treatment rooms connected with this gospel message.
In the medical college at Loma Linda, California, and the White Memorial Hospital of Los Angeles, associated with it, there is a large enrollment of students taking the medical course. Each year many receive their diplomas as qualified physicians after the completion of their course. This school has more graduates who have qualified in foreign lands than all the other medical schools in America combined. The graduates are sent forth into foreign lands not merely as physicians but as medical missionary physicians. In this school are students from most of the States of the Union and from many foreign countries. This offers a partial explanation of why we conduct sanitariums the gospel of the kingdom is to be preached in all the world to prepare a people for the coming of Christ.
As Christ left this world He said to His disciples: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." He purposed to carry out the plans He had for ancient Israel and make of His church a medical missionary organization. He will not fail nor be discouraged until He has accomplished this. The work of God in this world will never be finished until this is brought about. Teaching and healing will be combined again as they were in the days of Christ and the apostles and afterward, when in a brief period the gospel was preached in all the world.
As a result of wars, famine, and pestilences, such as the world has never witnessed, there shall be "upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; . . . men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. . . . And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." We see the significance of the prediction made some years ago: "I wish to tell you that soon there will be no work done in ministerial lines but medical missionary work." MRS. E. G. WHITE in General Conference Bulletin, 1901, p. 204. (Italics supplied.)
This is why we are now putting forth a united effort to encourage the members of our churches as far as possible to fit themselves for this work of ministry, and especially to make it possible for young men and women to obtain a special course of training to meet the emergencies as they arise.
Tell Them Now!
CLIFFORD R. ANDERSON, M.D. Washington Sanitarium and Hospital
Seventh-day Adventists have long been familiar with the voice and pen of Dr. Daniel H. Kress. Through, numerous articles in our church publications and through his books and public lectures, this man of God has rendered a great service to the church. Today he and his lifelong companion, Dr. Lauretta Kress, are quietly and happily living out their long span of years at their retirement home in Orlando, Florida. How appropriate that the editors of THE MINISTRY have accorded them the honor of gracing the front cover of this special issue on Medical Evangelism!
The long years of service have left no dark shadows and no bitter regrets. The faces of these two great medical pioneers just beam with joy. To visit them is an experience that brings new hope to every heart.
Quietly, and almost without realizing it, we must each pass through the changes from youth to maturity and then on to the golden years of sunset. While the Master tarries, it is inevitable that some of His people must be laid to rest. Among these are many who in times past have been our strongest leaders and most capable workers, those who have laid the broad foundations of the great and mighty work of God in all the world today. Their lives have been spent in spreading the message of His return. These are they who have known hard ship and sacrifice as they have tilled the soil and planted the seed. The gathering of the harvest must often be left to other hands. But how their hearts have thrilled as they have witnessed the triumph of the message in all parts of the world!
True Medical Evangelists
Such are the Drs. Kress. They helped to build Battle Creek. They opened our medical work in England. Later they moved to Australia. There they labored effectively in public evangelism, combining their medical training with the preaching of the Word. They laid the foundations of our great medical and health food work in the Australasian Division. They led out in building the Sydney Sanitarium. Workers from the training school they founded in Australia have gone to the South Pacific, the Far East, and many other parts of the world field.
Later, under the direct urging of Ellen G. White, the Drs. Kress were called to open medical missionary work in Washington, D.C. From the Washington Sanitarium they followed the counsel of the Lord, branching out and holding important medical missionary efforts in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Port land, Maine. This is the plan of God for all our medical institutions.
Many hundreds of our workers around the world have received their training and their inspiration from the sanitariums and training schools where these faithful doctors pioneered the way. What strength they have brought to the church! Multitudes have been blessed, and many are rejoicing in the truth. Eternity alone will measure the influence of their noble minis try, and of those whom they have trained and inspired.
But the day must inevitably come when even the greatest of pioneers must hand on the torch to younger workers. Dr. Daniel is now ninetytwo years of age. Dr. Lauretta is in her ninetysecond year. They realize that the sun is setting over their long and fruitful lives. But their courage is high, and their hearts are full of hope. In a letter Dr. Daniel wrote:
"My strength is failing, I am conscious of it. But I cannot expect anything else. The heat of this past summer was hard on men and women of ninety! . . . I have before me a statement from Sister White, written when she was conscious o£ failing strength due to age. She said, 'I long to be personally engaged in earnest work in the field, and I should most assuredly be engaged, did I not believe that at my age it is not wise to presume on one's physical strength. . . . When in the night season I am unable to sleep, I lift up my heart in prayer to God, and He strengthens me, and gives me the assurance that He is with His ministering servants. " 'I am encouraged and blessed as I realize that the God of Israel is guiding His people, and that He will continue to be with them to the end.' Then she added, 'I do not expect to live long. My work is nearly done. . . . Our men of solid minds know what is good for the upbuilding and uplifting o£ the work.'"
Dr. Kress adds, "I feel as did Sister White. My lifework is about ended. Younger men will carry it forward to completion." Thank God for a faith that can look forward to that day of triumph in the glorious kingdom of God. We who are younger salute the Drs. Kress and all the faithful pioneers of earlier days, those who are waiting, and those who are at rest. We shall never know how much we owe them for what they have done. Their lives still testify to the power and glory of redemption through our Lord Jesus Christ. How often we wait until too late to tell these aged champions how we appreciate their outstanding contributions to the cause we love! And we find them in many parts of the world. Let us tell them now!
"O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train."
Home Missionary Doctors
WESLEY AMUNDSEN Secretary, Association of S.D.A. Self-supporting Institutions
Too often we think of our foreign missionary doctors as being the only ones who are real missionaries. As we look around us here in the North American field, we find scores of self-sacrificing home missionary doctors who are carrying on a wonderful work for the Lord. Nor is it only those who serve in our denominational institutions that we are to think of. There is an army of Seventh-day Adventist physicians, sup porting themselves by their practice and doing exploits in the cause of truth. Time and space will not permit us to bring them all before you in this story of "Home Missionary Doctors." We can select only a few and let them be samples of many, many others whose names could be brought up in review.
Tempe, Arizona
In 1937, Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Pohle moved to Tempe, Arizona, where Dr. Pohle opened an office in the Casa Loma Hotel. The Lord blessed this medical missionary doctor from the start. Both Dr. and Mrs. Pohle took a personal interest in the spiritual welfare of patients. House calls were not always for the purpose of relieving someone from suffering. Many such visits were for the purpose of studying the Bible with interested families. On my visit to Tempe in 1953, I found an excellent thirty-six-bed hospital and a very busy clinic in operation and also a thriving church of about one hundred members. Yes, the Pohles really were responsible for the building of this church. They also paid the salary of the minister for several years. And, I have been told, the Lord has blessed them through these years with approximately two hundred souls won and baptized. JULY, 1954 While visiting with them, I had the privilege of attending an old-fashioned Bible study in a private home. Sister Pohle conducted the study, and the doctor and I assisted in the reading of the texts. There were five others present. Since that time they have all been baptized. Sister Pohle said to me, "Brother Amundsen, we believe that every case that comes to our hospital has been sent by the Lord, and it is our duty to make known the love of God to the patients as best we can. We must be true to the purpose for which God has placed us here." More about their work on page 12.
Bakersfield, California
At Bakersfield, California, we met the Drs. Marion C. and James F. Barnard, two brothers who, together with Drs. Wayne A. Fenderson and J. Wesley Kizziar, conduct a group-practice clinic in that city. What a missionary organization! Here, in one of the most modern of medical buildings, we find a medical group whose chief ambition is to direct inquiring souls to the kingdom of God. We did not find one page of secular reading matter made available to patients. On the other hand, there was a wide variety of good, current Seventh-day Adventist literature available clean and well kept. We saw a closet well stocked with such material. Patients are encouraged to take home with them small books, Bible Readings, leaflets, and magazines, all of which cost the medical missionaries approximately 11,000 a year. A full-time Bible instructor, paid by the group, makes contacts with patients in their homes and conducts Bible studies. We attended Sabbath services at the Bakersfield church, and there was Dr. Marion Barnard teaching a Sabbath school class in which were seven of his non-Adventist patients. Monday nights are devoted to conducting a Bible class in the waiting room of the clinic. Yes, soul winning is the keynote of this organization, and souls are being born continually into the kingdom of God. Paradise, California The Feather River Sanitarium and Hospital, at Paradise, California, is well known as an institution that has been specifically established to care for the physical and spiritual needs of mankind. Under the leadership of L. E. Folkenberg, a retired minister, who has not "retired" from serving God, the soul-winning program continues to move forward. He is kept busy fol lowing up interests developed in the institution, and at the time of my visit five or six persons had been baptized and twelve more were in the baptismal class. The whole corps of workers is geared to the soul-winning program. Drs. C. C. Landis and M. C. Horning, as they minister to sick bodies, call attention to the Great Physician, who can do more than anyone else in restoring the sick to health. It is a fine place. One comes away with a feeling of having been in the midst of a people whose lives are closely in touch with heaven. God is there.
North Sacramento, California
In October, 1947, the Community Medical Center at North Sacramento, California, was formally opened as a twenty-two-bed general hospital and clinic. The institution employs some thirty workers. The doctors, William K. Eaton, F. Curtis Varney, Russell T. Brown, and Robert A. Jacobsen, together with the dentist, E. L. Mathisen, carry on the medical program. O. M. Randall is the business manager, and G. H. Smith the chaplain. This institution has a remarkable record and is known far and wide as a Seventh-day Adventist institution in which the principles of health are taught and practiced. The religious atmosphere is indeed most wholesome. Twice a week, workers who are able to be spared from their duties are encouraged to attend devotional services and do what they can in carrying on missionary work. Signs of the Times, These Times, and other helpful religious reading materials are available to all patients. Such patients as seem favorable receive, upon leaving, a copy of Steps to Christ. The Quiet Hour radio programs, together with other religious broadcasts and musical recordings, are made available through the "pillow-speaker." Bible study classes are con ducted regularly. And now with the new Seventh-day Adventist chaplain, whose salary is provided by the institution, there are greater things ahead in soul winning for the Community Medical Center. Its story is more fully told on page 21.
Walla Walla, Washington
In Walla Walla, Washington, we met Dr. John E. Potts and his associates of the Blalock Memorial Foundation, Inc. This organization is not confined to a building. It is composed of a number of physicians who, under the leadership of Dr. Potts, have banded together for medical missionary purposes. The members of this organization pool some of their profits for the purpose of paying the salaries of two Bible instructors. These two ladies combine forces with the doctors and visit the homes of patients who have been attended by any of the doctors of the group. As a result of this visitation, which in many cases develops into opportunities for Bible studies, more than ninety persons were baptized in the first year and more than seventy the second year. Here we see an effectual demonstration of the uniting of medical workers with the Bible instructors and ministers the right hand being used to open the doors for the entrance of the message. When men use the methods God has indicated, success is assured. See page 45 for more about this group.
Cortland, New York
It is possible that many readers have not heard of the Gibbs Medical Group at Cortland, New York. Dr. D. R. Gibbs has associated with him another physician, D. W. Anderson, and a dentist, Earl C. Stannard, as well as a number of other fine workers. Not long ago someone wrote to me and ex pressed her feelings regarding the Gibbs Medical Group in this way: "Dr. Gibbs is a splendid surgeon and is well known for his sterling Christian qualities. Not only is he a healer of broken bodies, but also a physician to the souls of men." Fifteen years ago there was but a small group of six elderly Seventh-day Adventist women in Cortland. That was when Dr. Gibbs decided this was the place to settle and begin his practice of medicine. He became pastor as well as Bible instructor, in addition to his duties along medical lines. Not until 1949 did the conference send a pastor. Now there is a $40,- 000 church building and a two-teacher school that is already strained to capacity, and the work continues to increase. The Present Truth series is being sent weekly to all patient contacts. After the complete set of fifty have been sent, the medical group Bible instructor visits the home and seeks to arrange for Bible instruction. Religious and health films are used with success in interesting people in the better ways of living.
Riverdale, Maryland, and Wytheville, Virginia
How we wish that we might bring you the many thrilling stories that come to us from the Eugene Leland Memorial Hospital at Riverdale, Maryland, just a short distance from the General Conference office! They do their work so quietly and unobtrusively that one does not hear too much of the exploits. One just about has to force them to tell of them. Baptisms are the rule rather than the exception in this medical missionary institution. Dr. W. E. Malin began the work here in 1937, and later his brother, Dr. L. W. Malin, joined him. Some years ago Dr. W. E. Malin took up the challenge of developing a hospital in Wytheville, Virginia, and Dr. L. W. Malin continued to operate the institution at Riverdale. They have developed an organization called the Medical Group Foundation, which has for its purpose the establishing of Seventh-day Adventist medical missionary units in areas where there are none at present.
The report of missionary activities of the Wytheville Hospital group sounds almost like that of a home missionary secretary. Dr. W. E. Malin said, at a recent meeting of the Association of Self-supporting Institutions, that with a church of less than one hundred members, two hundred persons are receiving Bible studies, and much of this work is being done under the direction of the business manager of the Medical Group Foundation, H. E. Clough. At the Riverdale institution a full-time chap lain, paid by the institution, leads out in all religious activities. Bible studies are conducted in and out of the hospital. Literature is distributed widely. Branch Sabbath schools, home visitation, Bible course enrollments, and temperance work are all fostered by this live, wide awake medical missionary group. We should also mention medical units in the Southland, at Little Creek, Madison College, Takoma Sanitarium and Hospital, at institutions in Miami, Fletcher, Wildwood, Chunky, and in scores of other places where the work is being carried on in much the same way. We think, of Dr. A. W. Truman at Ardmore, Oklahoma, and of Dr. J. L. DeWitt down in the southern part of Texas, who are more interested in the souls of men than in their physical ailments, although they do not neglect those either. We think also of the Fuller Memorial Sanitarium and Hospital, where Dr. L. A. Senseman leads out. Yes, as we look over the field and think of the many, many faithful Seventh-day Adventist medical missionary physicians carrying on in a strong way for God in North America, we thank Him for the College of Medical Evangelists. May its tribe increase and may we, as ministers of the gospel, do all that we can to encourage them in their good work. No one but a physician can understand the terrific strain to which many of these men are subjected.
May God bless them one and all, and make them fruitful in the great work of pointing sin-sick souls to the kingdom of God. "Genuine medical missionary work is the gospel practiced." Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 168.
