The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

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Medical Missionaries

In this line of work, another aggressive step was taken when the training of medical missionaries was undertaken. In commendation of this effort for the uplifting of humanity, Mrs. White, when writing from Preston, Australia, Sept. 16, 1892, said:— GSAM 370.3

“I could wish that there were one hundred in training where now there is one. It ought to be thus. Both men and women can be more useful as medical missionaries than as missionaries without a medical education.” GSAM 370.4

The number taking a course of instruction preparatory to entering a life service of this character has been largely augmented since the above was written. GSAM 370.5