The Union’s Relation to the College

A few weeks after securing the charter, the fifth biennial session of the Pacific Union Conference was held at Mountain View, California. It soon became evident to the members of the committee on plans that one of the most important questions to be considered was the attitude this union conference should adopt in its relations toward the College of Medical Evangelists. They were faced with the necessity of making definite recommendations involving the future status of the school. They discussed the responsibility, financial and otherwise, which would rest upon any organization that might attempt to found and support a denominational medical college. Their perplexities are well recorded by Elder G. A. Irwin, vice-president of the General Conference, who met with the committee:SHM 384.1

“The object to be gained was greatly to be desired, but the expense would be so large, and the difficulties so many, that they did not feel free to recommend the undertaking of such an enterprise, before satisfying themselves, first, that they correctly understood the instruction given in the communications received from Sister White.”—Pacific Union Recorder, February 3, 1910.SHM 384.2