Loma Linda Messages

Recommendation to Secure Charter, Nov. 1909

WHEREAS, the above testimonies plainly call for a school of our own entirely disconnected from worldly colleges, but founded upon a legal basis, which shall educate medical workers (other than nurses) of two different classes, namely:— LLM 458.3

1st. Many who shall receive no medical degree, to labor as medical evangelists. LLM 458.4

2nd. A limited number of fully competent physicians, able to pass the test of the medical examining boards, to stand at the head of our school work, and LLM 458.5

WHEREAS, it is manifestly impossible to give in four years an education which shall combine an “especially strong” medical course with the necessary instruction in the Bible and Testimonies, and give at the same time a thoroughly practical training in medical evangelistic lines, Therefore:— LLM 458.6

It would seem that the only wise course would be to plan for a five-year's course of instruction which shall fully qualify competent physicians who may stand at the head of our medical work, the first three years of which course shall be designed to educate medical evangelists who shalt receive no medical degree, and LLM 458.7

WHEREAS, it seems impossible at present to carry out this entire plan, therefore, LLM 458.8

WE RECOMMEND, That a charter be secured for the college and that for the present we plan only to give the first three years of this curriculum. LLM 459.1

To carry the work this three years would necessitate the securing in all of seven physicians as instructors and an outlay of $_____ for laboratory equipment and other facilities to make the instruction practical in nature, this money to be used from time to time during the three years as may seem necessary. LLM 459.2

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