The Story of our Health Message

General Conference Committee Favorable

This memorial was brought before the General Conference Committee in June, shortly after the adjournment of the session,¹ and was acted upon a few weeks later. The committee recognized the Loma Linda Sanitarium as “an important institution and having a splendid location,” and that it was “capable of doing a great amount of good in the development of workers.” Not only should it be a “sanitarium of the first class, but a training center for young people who can enter service for foreign fields.” SHM 380.2

Though unable to render financial aid beyond the salary of a Bible teacher, the members of the committee were “in fullest sympathy with the principles for which it [the Loma Linda institution] stands, and the work” which it was believed the institution was “appointed to accomplish.” The Pacific Union Conference was urged to co-operate with the trustees of the sanitarium financially and to encourage young people to “take training at this institution.” SHM 380.3

However, before giving counsel regarding the suggested plan of making such additions to the faculty and equipment as to give one or two years of the medical course, to be recognized by the large universities, the General Conference Committee asked for definite information as to what would be involved “in adapting their courses of study to this purpose, and requirements of such colleges as would affiliate on this basis, and as to what such a plan would involve financially.” Minutes of General Conference Committee, July 25, 1909. SHM 381.1