The Story of our Health Message

An Expanding Field of Labor

On the second voyage Dr. M. G. Kellogg sailed with the group and located on the island of Tonga. On later trips the “Pitcairn” carried Dr. J. E. Caldwell to Raratonga, and Dr. F. E. Braucht to the Fiji Islands. SHM 285.3

Early in 1894 Dr. Lillis Wood went with a company of missionaries to Guadalajara, Mexico. The following year a sum of $12,000 was voted by the Foreign Mission Board for the construction and equipment of a sanitarium in that city. SHM 285.4

A number of physicians practicing under the direction of the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association were leading out in institutional work in northern and central Europe. SHM 285.5

A strong work was started in Skodsborg and in Frederikshavn, Denmark; in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway; in Friedensau, Germany; and in Basel, Switzerland. SHM 286.1

In Australasia a sanitarium was operated near Sydney, and one at Christchurch, New Zealand. SHM 286.2

The pioneer missionaries in India made a call for medical workers for that country, and soon a sanitarium was opened in Calcutta. SHM 286.3

In South Africa treatment rooms were early opened in Cape Town, and soon work was begun in a well-equipped building at Claremont. SHM 286.4

Several of the main sanitariums conducted branches. And there were treatment rooms in many of the leading cities of the United States and in such foreign cities as Cairo in Egypt, and Jaffa and Jerusalem in Palestine. SHM 286.5

Under the auspices of the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association were conducted both a large orphanage known as the Haskell Memorial Home and the James White Memorial Home for the Aged. Strong efforts were maintained in what was termed “Christian help work” not only on a large scale in some of the cities, but in local church societies. SHM 286.6

Counsels from the Spirit of prophecy repeatedly urged that the medical missionary work and the gospel ministry should work together in the closest harmony. This unity was to be maintained on the one hand by the ministry, who should accept and teach the health principles, and on the other hand by the medical workers, who should accept and teach the gospel truths especially committed to Seventh-day Adventists. SHM 286.7