洛马林达工作的进展
怀姐妹在一封写于1905年11月1日的信中说：“曾被呈现在我面前的事，乃是原应在加利福尼亚州南部建立许多疗养院;因为那里会有大量的人口流入。许多人会追求那里的气候。”{PH061 1.1}
怀姐妹在1905年2月写给住在雷德兰兹一位弟兄的一封信中说：“我希望……你在雷德兰兹看到一个合适的地方能用作疗养院，以合理的价格出售时，你要让我们知道这事。我们需要在雷德兰兹有一所疗养院。我们若不开办这种企业，别人就会办。……{PH061 1.2}
“我提到这事只是以便你将它放在心上。我们不会采取任何步骤在雷德兰兹建立一个疗养院，直到我们确信我们正在做正确的事情。”{PH061 2.1}
两个月后她写道：“雷德兰兹和里弗赛德作为应当作工的地方呈现在我面前。这两个地方不应再被忽视。我希望不久就能看到为它们付出认真的努力。请考虑在这些城镇附近建立疗养院的可取性，在每个地方都有治疗室作为该机构的支线。”{PH061 2.2}
在同一封信中我们看到这句话：“我们在加利福尼亚州南部各教会的人需要醒来，意识到在他们自己的境内必须做成之工的重大程度。”进而又说：“我有一个信息要传给在加利福尼亚州南部的教会肢体们：要醒来，并利用你们所拥有的机会。”{PH061 2.3}
指示买下洛马林达
下文是从美国首都华盛顿发给J.A.伯登长老的电报，请他买下在洛马林达的地产，“不要耽搁，”怀姐妹写道：{PH061 2.4}
“刚才读了你的信。我刚看完就说：‘我不会征求任何人的意见，因为我对这件事毫无疑问。’我劝威利给你发一封电报，不要花时间征求弟兄们的意见。要尽一切办法得到那块地产，以便占有它，然后获得你足能支付的所有钱来占有那个地方。这就是我们应该拥有的那块地产。不要耽搁;因为它正是我们所需要的。一得到它，工作组就可以在其中开始运作。我认为可以获得足够的帮助来完成这件事。我希望你确保在得到购买那块地产的权利方面不会浪费时间。我们将尽最大努力帮助你筹集资金。我知道雷德兰兹和里弗赛德应当开工，我祈求主开恩，不要让别人而不是我们得到这块地产。”{PH061 2.5}
上述段落引自的信写于1905年5月14日。怀姐妹在5月28日的信中写道：“请放心，我的弟兄，我从来不会建议任何事，除非我已有了明确的印象应该得到实施，除非我坚定地决心提供帮助。……你若可以，就尽一切办法得到这块地产;因为我相信它就是主希望我们得到的地方。{PH061 3.1}
她在一封1905年6月23日在格兰代尔写给南方一位弟兄的信中，写到了这块地产：{PH061 4.1}
“在我们最近的拜访之前，我从来没有亲眼见过这样的地方，但四年前，就有这样一个地方呈现在我面前，如果我们明智地行动，它就会成为我们的财产。这是一个我们开始为雷德兰兹和里弗赛德工作的好地方。我们必须作出果断的努力争取到愿意最忠心地从事医疗布道工作的帮手。如果上帝愿意赐福所施的治疗，基督也愿意让祂的医治之能被感觉到，就会成就一番奇妙的工作。”{PH061 4.2}
还有一次，怀姐妹写道：“所有的建筑都准备好了，我们一找到必要的医生和护士，就必须开始工作。我急于看到工作开始。一段时间以来，我一直在寻找像这样一个地方，有很好的建筑，随时可以入住，周围是荫凉的树木和果园。当我看到洛马林达时，我说，感谢主，这正是我一直希望找到的地方。{PH061 4.3}
“建筑物的特点，被优美的胡椒树所覆盖的梯田山，缤纷的花丛，茂盛的灌木，高大的树荫树，以及果园和田野，都使这个地方完全符合我在过去所给出的曾呈现给我的适合疗养院工作的那个最完美地方的描述。洛马林达的一切都是新鲜、健康和有吸引力的。”{PH061 4.4}
她在一封写给赫斯格长老、邀请他在加利福尼亚州南部工作的信中说：{PH061 5.1}
“我们必须很快在洛马林达开办一所护士培训学校。这个地方将成为一个重要的中心，我们需要你和你妻子的努力，为这个新的教育中心提供正确的模式。”{PH061 5.2}
下文写于1905年11月1日，也很中肯：{PH061 5.3}
“要尽快建立一所学校，主必开路。……既有主楼和所有相关的建筑，我们就有很大的有利条件。我们若是存谦卑的心与上帝同行，并且按照祂已使我们兴旺的程度行事，就必有基督作我们的朋友和帮助者。‘若有人要跟从我，就当舍己，背起他的十字架来跟从我’(太16:24)。这就是我们作门徒的条件。我们愿意遵守这些条件吗?”{PH061 5.4}
怀姐妹于10月30发表了一次讲话，这样讲到了在洛马林达的教育工作：{PH061 6.1}
“这里有建立学校和疗养院的有利条件。对学生和病人都很有利。我蒙指示，这里应设立一所学校，按照古代先知学校的原则办学。学校各方面工作可能与世俗的学校不同，可是它特别适合于立志献身为主无私服务，而不是经商谋利的人。{PH061 6.2}
“我们需要一所最高等次的学校，在这所学校里要重视上帝的话：教导人顺从圣经的训言。为了办好这所学校，我们必须小心挑选教员。我们的青年人不要完全依赖一般学校，在那里他们被告知：‘你若要完成学业，就得修这门课程或那门课程’——这些课程对于那些专望把上帝健康平安的信息传遍普天下的人也许没有什么实际价值。在许多人所接受的教育中，不仅有一些无用的功课，还有一些绝对有害的课程。我们所应该努力提供的教育是能迅速地预备学生为同胞服务。{PH061 6.3}
“我们所招收的学生应是愿意深入研究上帝的圣言，在生活上实行圣经真理的人。我们所给的教育应能使献身的青年出来与其伟大的使命相称。‘所以，你们要去，使万民作我的门徒，奉父、子、圣灵的名给他们施洗。凡我所吩咐你们的，都教训他们遵守’(太28:19,20)。”{PH061 7.1}
对医生的培训
怀姐妹在回答“你提到的这所学校只培养合格的护士吗?还是也培养合格的医生呢?”这个问题时，说：{PH061 7.2}
“医生们要在这里接受教育。他们在这里所受的训练应使他们出来后不会非谋求最高的工资不可。”{PH061 7.3}
早在1905年12月10日，怀姐妹就曾写信给伯登长老夫妇：“至于学校，我想说的是，要在护士和医生的教育方面尽你所能。”{PH061 7.4}
怀姐妹给在洛马林达的医师和经理写了一封信，日期是1908年2月20日，她在信中说道：{PH061 14.1}
“我不敢劝你们按照你们的提议做这么大的计划。你们需要在这些事上以主为你们的智慧。我不觉得你们应该计划这么大的开支，除非你们确信你们能偿还债务。我要提醒你们不要欠下一大笔债。食品厂即将建成并投入运行。我提醒你们注意这个企业，以免你们制定更多的计划，过于你们能很好地执行的。{PH061 14.2}
“你们有各种人才，而且你们就在当地。你们若本着信心寻求主的忠告，祂就必在凡事上作你们的指导者。祂若在这事上赐给你们亮光，那么你们就能以确信行事。现在是你们向主求智慧，并将你们的计划交给祂的时候。这是你们获得个人经验的大好机会。要明智地计划;谨慎地行事;主就必作你们的帮助者。{PH061 14.3}
“我对在洛马林达的工作深感兴趣。你们建议的计划似乎是必要的;但你们需要确保自己能安全地执行这些计划。你们不应该仓促行事以致陷入重债。{PH061 14.4}
“你们提议的工作将需要明智的业务人员和能干的医生。你们若是有人力财力承接这种责任，我们就会很高兴看到你们的计划得到实施。然而疗养院必须是你们的第一考虑事项。愿主赐给你们智慧和恩典照祂所希望的承担这些责任。这个机构必须拥有使它取得成功所需要的所有人才。”{PH061 14.5}
1908年3月24日，怀姐妹进一步写道：{PH061 15.1}
“我蒙指示很清楚地看出：在可能的情形下，学校应尽可能设在我们疗养院的附近，使双方可以互助，两得其便。但是，我不敢建议现在就采取措施，在洛马林达的教育工作中扩大到如此大的范围，以致需要大量的资金来建造新建筑物。我们在洛马林达的忠心工人不可被如此大的责任压得喘不过气来，以致会有变得疲倦灰心的危险。{PH061 15.2}
“我奉命告诫你们不要为学生的住宿而大量建筑。在这个时候，投资这么大的一笔资金是不明智的，因为需要为一所医学院提供设备，使医生有资格接受不同州的医疗检查。{PH061 15.3}
“现在不应发起一场会大大增加对洛马林达地产投资的运动。该机构已经承担了大量债务，如果债务大幅增加，就会产生沮丧和困惑。随着工作的进展，可能会不时地增加新的改进，因为那是必要的。主楼应该很快安装一部电梯。然而需要厉行节约。但愿我们的弟兄们谨慎而明智地行动，不要计划得太长以致负担过重。{PH061 15.4}
“这学校的工作务要保持简纯。基于简纯而获得成功乃是最有力的辨证。你们训练学生做医疗布道士，即或不藉着能造就与世上医师抗衡之人才的医学校，也可以达到成功的地步。{PH061 16.1}
“须使学生受一种实际的教育。你们越不依靠世俗的教育方法，就越能使学生获益。应当施与特殊的训练，不用含有毒质的药物去医治病人，这乃是与上帝所赐我的亮光相符合的。学生从学校里出来，决不可牺牲健康改良的原则。{PH061 16.2}
“凡欲在宣传第三位天使信息的医疗布道工作上增进其效能的人，对于迎合世俗标准的教育，应该越少注重越好。他们所受的教育须以良心为立足点;并且他们若忠于良心，诚实地遵照正当的方法医治病人，则必被人认为比常人所惯用以含毒之药品治病的方法更胜一筹。{PH061 16.3}
“我们现今不应设法与世俗的医学院竞争。我们若这样行，成功的机会就很小。我们现在还没有充分的预备创立有成效的大规模的医学教育机构。况且我们若随从世俗的医疗方法，并与世俗的医师一样索取巨额的诊费，那就与基督所要我们为病人服务的计划不相符了。{PH061 17.1}
“在我们的疗养院中，应当有才智卓著的男女，能照着基督服务的方法去教导人。青年人在合格而且献身的教师指导之下，便能学得怎样脱离世上从情欲而来的败坏，并得与上帝的性情有份。我蒙指示，我们当有更多的妇女，专门诊治妇女的疾病;也当有更多的女护士，不用药物而用简易的方法看护病人。”{PH061 17.2}
“我们一点儿不想要那种‘高等教育’，因为它会使我们处在不归功于耶和华以色列的上帝，反而归功于以革伦的神的立场。主的计划上我们应该站立为一班独特的百姓，与祂如此相通以致祂能与我们同工。要让我们的医师认识到他们应当全然倚靠真神。{PH061 23.1}
‘今天早上我感到负担很重，因为我重读了在我房间里发现的一封信，其中概述了一个计划，——让医学生在洛马林达从事某种工作，但要从某个属世的机构完成他们的教育。我必须声明，我所得到的亮光是，我们应当作为一班守诫命的子民站立，而这会使我们与世人分别。安息日是伟大的分界线。我们作为上帝特选的子民，不应当觉得我们必须承认我们倚靠正在违犯上帝律法的人使我们在世上有影响。是上帝给了我们影响力。祂必赐给我们优势，远超过我们能从世俗的人得到的一切优势。……{PH061 23.2}
“我们若是竭力追求认识耶和华，就必知道祂出现确如晨光。有些人可能看不出，这里有一个试验：我们是要倚靠人还是要倚靠上帝。难道我们要藉自己的做法，好像承认不信的人比上帝自己的子民更有能力吗?当我们持定上帝，并倚靠祂时，祂就必为我们行事。然而我们应当独自站立，与世人分别。{PH061 24.1}
“我对在洛马林达的工作感到一种坚定的兴趣，我希望它发挥一种强有力的支持真理的影响。你的成功取决于上帝的赐福，而不是那些反对上帝律法要求之人的观点。当人们看到上帝赐福我们时，他们就会蒙引导，考虑我们所教导的真理。{PH061 24.2}
“我们不必倚赖人以获得影响力。我们不必以为我们必须拥有他们的经验和他们的知识。我们的上帝是知识和悟性的上帝，我们若是果断地采取立场站在祂一边，祂就必赐给我们智慧。我希望我们所有的人能看到那些自称守上帝诫命之人的矛盾之处，他们自称是特选的子民，热心为善，却认为我们必须效法世界的模式才能使我们的工作取得成功。我们的上帝比人类的任何影响都更强大。我们若是愿意接受祂为我们的教育者，若是愿意以祂为我们的力量和公义，祂就必为我们行事。……{PH061 24.3}
“你有主的道，这道告诉你，守上帝诫命的子民应当有祂特别的眷爱，他们应当因顺从真理而成圣。难道我们要使自己与那些充满错误、不尊敬上帝的诫命的人联合吗?难道我们的学生要从他们完成他们的教育吗?”{PH061 25.1}
W.C.怀特：“最终的结果是什么?我们所有的医疗布道士都将只是护士吗?我们是要不再有医生呢，还是要有一所学校，我们自己能在其中完成教育呢?”{PH061 25.2}
怀爱伦：“无论你们遵循什么计划，都要采取立场不与那些不尊重上帝诫命的人联合。”{PH061 25.3}
W.C.怀特：“那意味着我们不会再有医生了，我们的人将只是作为护士工作呢，还是意味着我们要有一所我们自己的学校，在那里我们可以教育医生呢?”{PH061 25.4}
怀爱伦：“我们要有一所我们自己的学校。但我们不要倚靠世人。我们必须倚靠一个比所有人间能力更高的能力。我们若是尊重上帝，祂就必重看我们。”{PH061 25.5}
J.A.伯登：“地上的政府规定，我们如果开办一所医学院，就必须从政府那里获得执照。这本身与学校的运作方式无关。但是，它要求必须教授某些学科。……让一所医学院获得一份执照，使我们的学生可以在那里接受医学教育，会不会妨碍我们对上帝的依靠呢?”{PH061 26.1}
怀爱伦：“不，我不认为会有妨碍。只是要确保你们不要高举人在上帝以上。你们若能获得力量和影响，会使你们的工作更有效率而不将你们自己与世人绑在一起，那就是对的。”{PH061 26.2}
J.A.伯登：在我看来，任何我们可以合法地拥有而不妥协的立场，都与上帝的计划并不矛盾。{PH061 26.3}
怀爱伦：是的，不矛盾。我只能说，我已有非常清楚的亮光，然而，我们有限制以色列圣者力量的危险。祂是宇宙的上帝，我们的影响取决于我们执行永生上帝话语的训词。我们若不倚靠上帝，不持住祂的能力，就会削弱我们的力量。这是我们的特权。”{PH061 26.4}
“我蒙指示要说：我们在教育工作中不可妥协以迎合属世的标准。遵守上帝诫命的人不可与世界联合按照世界的计划和智慧进行各方面的工作。{PH061 28.1}
“我们的信徒现在正受到考验，他们是要从人间最伟大的教师那里学智慧呢?还是向以革伦的神求问呢?我们要下决心不被那些不认识上帝的声音、不听从祂命令之人的教育方针所缠绕。我们岂能向世人表示：我们的医师在获得成功医师的资格以前，必须仿效世界的样式?这是一个考验我们一些弟兄信仰的问题。我们任何一个弟兄都不要因在会中宣扬以下的观点而招致上帝的不悦：即我们需要从不信的人那里获得上帝所规定之外的高等教育。{PH061 28.2}
“要把那大教师的表述看作是最充分的启示。我们教会里担任医师的人应当只接受与这些神圣真理一致的教育。有人曾建议，学生们在洛马林达学一些功课后，要再到世俗的医学院完成他们的医科教育。但这不符合主的计划。上帝是我们的智慧、圣洁和公义。洛马林达要提供种种设施，好让敬畏上帝、与祂治病的计划和谐的导师讲授必要的医学课程。{PH061 29.1}
“我绝不赞成在我们所建立训练医师的任何学校中贯彻世俗高等教育的思想。他们若进入世俗的学校中，在世俗医师的管理下学习，是有危险的。撒但正在下令让他所引导的那些人离弃真道。我要劝我们的青年决不要到世俗的医学院中去谋求将来担任医生以获得更大的成功和更大的影响力。”{PH061 29.2}
一个由I.H.埃文斯、E.E.安德罗斯和H.W.科特雷尔组成的委员会被任命去采访怀姐妹。该委员会以书面形式向她提出了以下问题：{PH061 30.1}
“我们是否应当这样理解：根据你所写关于在洛马林达建立一所医学院的内容，照你从主领受的亮光，我们应当建一所设备齐全的医学院，这所学院的毕业生将能够参加国家委员会考试并成为注册合格的医生?”{PH061 30.2}
怀姐妹在回答这个问题时写道：{PH061 30.3}
“我所得到的亮光是：我们必须为希望成为医生的青年提供必要的教育，使他们有足够的知识能经得起种种考试，表明他们有作医生的资格。他们应当做好准备，经得起法律所要求的考试，聪明地诊治病人的种种病症，使一切明智的医生不会认为我们的学校里没有传授医生所必需的知识。学生们毕业以后，还要不断地增长知识，因为实践会使人成全完备。{PH061 30.4}
“洛马林达的医科大学应当是最高等次的，因为我们与那位最智慧的医师有密切的联络，从祂那里获得卓越的知识。我们必须提供与我们信仰不同的人所举办的学校一切所需要的教育，使我们的青年无需进入这些世俗的学校。这样，我们就会关闭了仇敌希望敞开的门户。主希望我们保护我们青年男女的属灵利益，这样他们就不会觉得需要去不信的人开办的世俗医学院上学。”{PH061 31.1}
PH061 - Progress of Work at Loma Linda
In a letter written November 1, 1905, Sister White said:?“The matter was presented to me that many sanitariums would have to be established in Southern California, for there would be a great inflowing of people there. Many would seek that climate.”?{PH061 1.1}[1]
In a letter written in February, 1905, to a brother living in Redlands, Sister White said:?“I hope ... that when you find a suitable place in Redlands, which could be used as a sanitarium, offered for sale at a reasonable price, you will?let us know about it. We shall need a sanitarium in Redlands. Unless we start an enterprise of this kind, other will....?{PH061 1.2}[2]
“I merely mention this matter so that you may keep it in view. We shall not take any steps to establish a sanitarium in Redlands until we can be assured that we are doing the right thing.”?{PH061 2.1}[3]
Two months later she wrote:?“Redlands and Riverside have been presented to me as places that should be worked. These two places should not longer be neglected. I hope soon to see an earnest effort put forth in their behalf. Will you please consider the advisability of establishing a sanitarium in the vicinity of these towns, with treatment rooms in each place, to act as feeders to the institution?”?{PH061 2.2}[4]
In this same letter we find this statement:?“Our people in Southern California need to awaken to the magnitude of the work to be done within their borders.” And further: “I have a message to bear to the church-members in Southern California: Arouse, and avail yourselves of the opportunities open to you.”?{PH061 2.3}[5]
【Instruction to Secure Loma Linda】
Following the telegram sent to Elder J. A. Burden from Washington, D. C., asking him to secure the property at Loma Linda “without delay,” Sister White wrote:?{PH061 2.4}[6]
“Your letter has just been read. I had no sooner finished reading it than I said, ‘I will consult no one; for I have no question at all about the matter.’ I advised Willie to send you a telegram without spending time to ask the advice of?the brethren. Secure the property by all means, so that it can be held, and then obtain all the money you can and make sufficient payment to hold the place. This is the very property that we ought to have. Do not delay; for it is just what is needed. As soon as it is secured, a working force can begin operations in it. I think that sufficient help can be secured to carry this matter through. I want you to be sure to lose no time in securing the right to purchase the property. We will do our utmost to help you raise the money. I know that Redlands and Riverside are to be worked, and I pray that the Lord may be gracious, and not allow any one else to get this property instead of us.”?{PH061 2.5}[7]
The letter from which the foregoing paragraph is quoted was written May 14, 1905.?“Be assured, my brother,” Sister White wrote in a letter dated May 28, “that I never advise anything unless I have a decided impression that it should be carried out, and unless I am firmly resolved to assist.... By all means secure the property if you can; for I believe it to be the very place the Lord desires us to have.”?{PH061 3.1}[8]
In a letter written from Glendale, June 23, 1905, to a brother in the South, she wrote regarding the property:?{PH061 4.1}[9]
“Until this recent visit, I had never before seen such a place with my natural eyes, but four years ago such a place was presented before me as one of those that would come into our possession if we moved wisely. It is a wonderful place in which to begin our work for Redlands and Riverside. We must make decided efforts to secure helpers who will do most faithful missionary work. If God will bless the treatments given, and Christ will let His healing power be felt, a wonderful work will be accomplished.”?{PH061 4.2}[10]
On another occasion Sister White wrote:?“The buildings are all ready, and work must be begun as soon as we can secure the necessary physicians and nurses. I am anxious to see the work started. For some time I have been looking for just such a place as this, with buildings all ready for occupancy, surrounded by shade-trees and orchards. When I saw Loma Linda, I said, Thank the Lord. This is the very place we have been hoping to find.?{PH061 4.3}[11]
“The character of the buildings, the terraced hill covered by graceful pepper trees, the profusion of flowers and shrubs, the tall shade-trees, the orchards and fields,—all combine to make this place meet fully the descriptions that I have given in the past of the place presented to me as the most perfect for sanitarium work. Everything at Loma Linda is fresh and wholesome and attractive.”?{PH061 4.4}[12]
In a letter written to Elder Haskell, inviting him to labor in Southern California, she said:?{PH061 5.1}[13]
“We must soon start a nurses’ training school at Loma Linda. This place will become an important center, and we need the efforts of yourself and your wife to give the right mould to the work in this new educational center.”?{PH061 5.2}[14]
The following, written November 1, 1905, is also to the point:?{PH061 5.3}[15]
“A school will be established as soon as possible, and the Lord will open the way.... With all the buildings in connection with the main building, we have great advantages. If we will walk humbly with God, and do according to that which He hath prospered us, we will have Christ as our friend and our helper. ‘If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.’ These are the terms of our discipleship. Will we comply with them?”?{PH061 5.4}[16]
Sister White, in a talk given October 30, spoke thus of the educational work at Loma Linda:?{PH061 6.1}[17]
“Here 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 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.?{PH061 6.2}[18]
“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 perhaps would 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.?{PH061 6.3}[19]
“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.’”?{PH061 7.1}[20]
【For the Training of Physicians】
In answer to a question, “Is this school that you have spoken of simply to qualify nurses? or is it to embrace also the qualification of physicians?” Sister White replied:?{PH061 7.2}[21]
“Physicians are to receive their education here. Here they are to receive such a mould that when they go out to labor, they will not seek to grasp the very highest wages, or else do nothing.”?{PH061 7.3}[22]
As early as December 10, 1905, Sister White had written to Elder and Mrs. Burden,?“In regard to the school, I would say, Make it all you possibly can in the education of nurses and physicians.”?{PH061 7.4}[23]
Sister White addressed a letter to the physicians and manager at Loma Linda, dated February 20, 1908, in which she said:?{PH061 14.1}[24]
“I dare not advise you in such large plans as you propose. You need to make the Lord your wisdom in these matters. I do not feel that you should plan for such large outlay of means?unless you have some certainty that you can meet your obligations. I would caution you against gathering a large load of indebtedness. There is the food factory to be completed and set in operation. I call your attention to this enterprise, that you may not lay more plans than you will carry out.?{PH061 14.2}[25]
“You are men of varied talents, and you are right on the ground. The Lord will be your instructor in all matters if you will seek his counsel in faith.?If He gives you light in this matter, then you can move with assurance. Now is the time for you to ask of the Lord wisdom, and submit your plans to Him. It is an excellent opportunity for you to receive an individual experience. Plan wisely; move guardedly; and the Lord will certainly be your helper.?{PH061 14.3}[26]
“I feel a deep interest in the work at Loma Linda.?The plans you suggest seem to be essential; but you need to assure yourselves that they can be safely carried. You should not make hasty moves that will involve heavy indebtedness.?{PH061 14.4}[27]
“The work which you propose will require?wise business men and efficient physicians.?If you had the talent and means to carry such responsibilities, we should be glad to see your plans carry. But the sanitarium must be your first consideration. May the Lord give you wisdom and grace to bear these responsibilities as He would have you. This institution must have all the talent that is needed to make it a success.”?{PH061 14.5}[28]
March 24, 1908, Sister White wrote further:?{PH061 15.1}[29]
“I have clear instructions that wherever it is possible, schools should be established near our sanitariums, that each institution may be a help to the other. But I dare not advise that steps be taken?at this time?to branch out so largely in the educational work at Loma Linda that a great outlay of means will be required to erect new buildings. Our faithful workers at Loma Linda must not be overwhelmed with such great responsibilities that they will be in danger of becoming worn and discouraged.?{PH061 15.2}[30]
“I am charged to caution you against building extensively for the accommodation of students. It would not be wise to invest?at this time?so large a capital as would be required to equip a medical college that would properly qualify physicians to stand the test of the medical examinations of the different States.?{PH061 15.3}[31]
“A movement should not?now?be inaugurated that would add greatly to the investment upon the Loma Linda property. Already there is a large debt resting upon the institution, and discouragement and perplexity would follow if this indebtedness were to be greatly increased. As?the work progresses, new improvement may be added from time to time as they are found necessary. An elevator should soon be installed in the main building. But there is need of strict economy. Let our brethren move cautiously and wisely, and plan no more than they can handle without being overburdened.?{PH061 15.4}[32]
“In the work of the school, maintain simplicity. No argument is so powerful as is success founded on simplicity. And you may have success in the education of students as medical missionaries without a medical school that can qualify physicians to compete with the physicians of the world.?{PH061 16.1}[33]
“Let the students be given a practical education. And the less dependent you are upon worldly methods of education, the better it will be for the students. Special instruction should be given in the art of treating the sick without the use of poisonous drugs, and in harmony with the light God has given. Students should come forth from the school without having sacrificed the principles of health reform.?{PH061 16.2}[34]
“The education that meets the world’s standard is to be less and less valued by those who are seeking for efficiency in carrying the medical missionary work in connection with the work of the third angel’s message. They are to be educated from the standpoint of conscience; and as they conscientiously and faithfully follow right methods in their treatment of the sick, these methods will come to be recognized as preferable to the methods of nursing to which many have become accustomed which demand the use of poisonous drugs.?{PH061 16.3}[35]
“We should not at this time seek to compete with worldly medical schools. Should we do this, our chances of success would be small. We are not now prepared to carry out successfully the work of establishing large medical institutions of learning. Moreover, should we follow the world’s methods of medical practice, exacting the large fees that worldly physicians demand for their services, we should work away from Christ’s plan for our ministry to the sick.?{PH061 17.1}[36]
“There should be at our sanitariums intelligent men and women who can instruct in Christ’s methods of ministry. Under the instruction of competent, consecrated teachers, the young may become partakers of the divine nature, and learn how to escape the corruptions that are in the world through lust. I have been shown that we should have many more women who can deal especially with the diseases of women, many more lady nurses who will treat the sick in a simple way and without the use of drugs.”?{PH061 17.2}[37]
“We want none of that kind of ‘higher education’ that will put us in a position where the credit must be given, not to the Lord God of Israel, but to the god of Ekron. The Lord designs that we shall stand as a distinct people, so connected with Him that He can work with us. Let our physicians realize that they are to depend wholly upon the true God.?{PH061 23.1}[38]
‘I felt a heavy burden this morning when I read over a letter that I found in my room, in which a plan was outlined for having medical students take some work at Loma Linda, but to get the finishing touches of their education from?some worldly institution. I must state that the light that I have received is that we are to stand as a commandment-keeping people, and this will separate us from the world. The Sabbath is a great distinguishing line. As God’s peculiar people, we should not feel that we must acknowledge our dependence upon the transgressors of God’s law to give us influence in the world. It is God that gives us influence. He will give us advantages that are far above all the advantages we can receive from worldlings....?{PH061 23.2}[39]
“If we follow on to know the Lord, we shall know that His going forth is prepared as the morning. There are some who may not be able to see that here is a test as to whether we shall put our dependence on man or upon God. Shall we by our course seem to acknowledge that there is a stronger power with the unbelievers than there is with God’s own people? When we take hold upon God and trust in Him, He will work in our behalf. But we are to stand distinct and separate from the world.?{PH061 24.1}[40]
“I feel a decided interest in the work at Loma Linda, and I desire that it shall exert a powerful influence for the truth. Your success depends upon the blessing of God, not upon the views of men who are opposed to the law of God. When they see that God blesses us, then people will be led to give consideration to the truths we teach.?{PH061 24.2}[41]
“We need not tie to men in order to secure influence. We need not think that we must have their experience and their knowledge. Our God is a God of knowledge and understanding, and if we will take our position decidedly on His side,?He will give us wisdom. I would that all our people might see the inconsistency of our being God’s commandment-keeping people, a peculiar people zealous of good works, and yet feeling that we must copy after the world in order to make our work successful. Our God is stronger than any human influence. If we will accept Him as our educator, if we will make Him our strength and righteousness, He will work in our behalf....?{PH061 24.3}[42]
“You have the Word, which tells you that God’s commandment-keeping people are to have His special favor, and that they are to be sanctified through obedience to the truth. Shall we unite ourselves with those that are full of error, who have no respect for God’s commandments’ and shall our students go forth to obtain the finishing touches of their education from them?”?{PH061 25.1}[43]
W. C. White: “What is to be the final outcome? Will all our medical missionaries be simply nurses? Shall we have no more physicians? or shall we have a school in which we can ourselves give the finishing touches?”?{PH061 25.2}[44]
E. G. White: “Whatever plan you follow, take your position that you will not unite with those that do not respect God’s commandments.”?{PH061 25.3}[45]
W. C. White: “Does that mean that we are not to have any more physicians, but that our people will work simply as nurses? or does it mean that we shall have a school of our own to educate physicians?”?{PH061 25.4}[46]
E. G. White: “We shall have a school of our own. But we are not to be dependent upon the world. We must place our dependence upon a?power that is higher than all human power. If we honor God, He will honor us.”?{PH061 25.5}[47]
J. A. Burden: “The governments of earth provide that if we conduct a medical school, we must take a charter from the government. That in itself has nothing to do with how the school is conducted. It is required, however, that certain studies be taught.... Would the securing of a charter for a medical school, where our students might obtain a medical education, militate against our dependence upon God?”?{PH061 26.1}[48]
E. G. White: “No, I do not see that it would. Only see that you do not exalt men above God. If you can gain force and influence that will make your work more effective without tying yourselves to worldly men, that would be right.”?{PH061 26.2}[49]
J. A. Burden: “It seems clear to me that any standing we can lawfully have without compromising, is not out of harmony with God’s plan.”?{PH061 26.3}[50]
E. G. White: “No, it is not. I have had very distinct light, however, that there is danger of our limiting the power of the Holy One of Israel. He is the God of the universe. Our influence is dependent upon our carrying out the word of the living God. We weaken our powers by not placing our dependence upon God, and taking hold of His strength. This is our privilege.”?{PH061 26.4}[51]
“I am instructed to say that in our educational work there is to be no compromise in order to meet the world’s standards. God’s commandment keeping people are not to unite with the world, to carry various lines of work according to worldly plans and worldly wisdom.?{PH061 28.1}[52]
“Our people are now being tested as to whether they will obtain their wisdom from the greatest Teacher the world ever knew, or seek to the god of Ekron. Let us determine that we will not be tied by so much as a thread to the educational policies of those who do not discern the voice of God, and who will not hearken to His commandments.... Shall we represent before the world, that our physicians must follow the pattern of the world before they can be qualified to act as successful physicians? This is the question that is now testing the faith of some of our brethren. Let not any of our brethren displease the Lord by advocating in their assemblies the idea that we need to obtain from unbelievers a higher education than that specified by the Lord.?{PH061 28.2}[53]
“The representation of the great Teacher is to be considered an all-sufficient revelation. Those in our ranks who qualify as physicians are to receive only such education as is in harmony with these divine truths. Some have advised that students should, after taking some work at Loma Linda, complete their medical education in worldly colleges. But this is not in harmony with the Lord’s plan. God is our wisdom, our sanctification, and our righteousness. Facilities should be provided at Loma Linda, that the necessary instruction in medical lines may be given by instructors who fear the Lord, and who are in harmony with His plans for the treatment of the sick.?{PH061 29.1}[54]
“I have not a word to say in favor of the world’s ideas of higher education in any school that we shall organize for the training of physicians. There is danger in their attaching themselves to worldly institutions, and working under the ministrations of worldly physicians. Satan is giving his orders to those whom he has led to depart from the faith. I would now advise that none of our young people attach themselves to worldly medical institutions in the hope of gaining better success or stronger influence as physicians.”?{PH061 29.2}[55]
A committee consisting of Elders I. H. Evans, E. E. Andross, and H. W. Cottrell, was appointed to interview sister White. This committee submitted to her in writing the following question:?{PH061 30.1}[56]
“Are we to understand, from what you have written concerning the establishment of a medical school at Loma Linda, that, according to the light you have received from the Lord, we are to establish a thoroughly equipped medical school, the graduates from which shall be able to take State Board examinations, and become registered, qualified physicians?”?{PH061 30.2}[57]
In response to this question, sister White wrote:?{PH061 30.3}[58]
“The light given me is, We must provide that which is essential to qualify our youth who desire to be physicians, so that they may intelligently fit themselves to be able to stand the examinations essential to prove their efficiency as physicians. They are to be prepared to stand the essential tests required by law, and to treat understandingly the cases of those who are diseased, so that the door will be closed for any sensible physician to fear that we are not giving in our school the instruction essential for the proper qualification of a physician. Continually the students who are graduated are to advance in knowledge; for practice makes perfect.?{PH061 30.4}[59]
“The medical school at Loma Linda is to be of the highest order, because we have a living connection with the wisest of all physicians, from whom there is communicated knowledge of a superior order. And whatever subjects are required as essential in the schools conducted by those not of our faith, we are to supply, so that our youth need not go to these worldly schools. Thus we shall close the door that the enemy would be pleased to have left open; and our young men and young women, whom the Lord would have us guard religiously, will not need to connect with worldly medical schools conducted by unbelievers.”?{PH061 31.1}[60]
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