Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 22 (1907)

Ms 151, 1907

Talk/The High Order of the Loma Linda School

Loma Linda, California

October 30, 1907

This manuscript is published in entirety in LLM 303-304.

October 30, 1907

From talk given by Mrs. E. G. White, Loma Linda

Here (at Loma Linda) we have ideal advantages for a school and for a sanitarium. Here are advantages for the students and great advantages for the patients. I have been instructed that here we should have a school conducted on the principles of the ancient schools of the prophets. It may not be carried on in every respect as are the schools of the world, but it is to be especially adapted for those who desire to devote their lives, not to commercial pursuits, but to unselfish service for the Master. 22LtMs, Ms 151, 1907, par. 1

We want a school of the highest order—a school where the Word of God will be regarded as essential and where obedience to its teachings will be taught. For the carrying forward of such a school, we must have carefully selected educators. Our young people are not to be wholly dependent on the schools where they are told, “If you wish to complete our course of instruction, you must take this study, or some other study”—studies that would perhaps be of no practical benefit to those whose only desire is to give to the world God’s message of health and peace. In the education that many receive, there are not only subjects that are non-essential, but much that is decidedly objectionable. We should endeavor to give instruction that will prepare students quickly for service to their fellow men. 22LtMs, Ms 151, 1907, par. 2

We are to seek for students who will plow deep into the Word of God, and who will conform the life practice to the truths of the Word. Let the education given be such as will qualify consecrated young men and young women to go forth in harmony with the great commission, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” [Matthew 28:19, 20.] 22LtMs, Ms 151, 1907, par. 3

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Elder Burden: I want to ask a question. Is this school that you have spoken of simply to qualify nurses, or is it to embrace also the qualification for physicians? 22LtMs, Ms 151, 1907, par. 4

Mrs. E. G. White: Physicians are to receive their education here. Here they are to receive such a mold that when they go out to labor, they will not seek to grasp the very highest wages or else do nothing. 22LtMs, Ms 151, 1907, par. 5