The Story of our Health Message

CHAPTER 21 TRAINING OF PHYSICIANS

AS EARLY as 1873 Mrs. White, speaking of the physicians at the Health Reform Institute, asserted that a larger work could be accomplished if there were more physicians who had the “right stamp of mind,” “proper culture, and a thorough understanding of every part of the work devolving on a physician.” At that early date she saw that it would not be an easy matter “to obtain the right class of men and women,” physicians who were “fitted for the place,” and who would “work harmoniously, zealously, and unselfishly for the benefit of suffering invalids.” “Men are wanted at the institute,” she wrote, “who will have the fear of God before them, and who can minister to sick minds, and keep prominent the health reform from a religious standpoint.”—Testimonies for the Church 3:167, 168. SHM 249.1