In very definite ways the physicians who live in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference are medical missionaries. The radius of their influence extends far beyond those individuals whom they personally contact. This is accomplished through the distribution of literature. A report of this work will undoubtedly be of interest.
Dr. L. E. Coolidge, superintendent of the Takoma Hospital and Sanitarium, Greenville, Tennessee, and his staff, send five thousand copies of Life and Health each month to the leading families of eastern Tennessee. This has been done yearly for some time. Naturally, the health principles set forth in the journal have brought great blessings to the area.
Dr. V. F. Shull, superintendent of the Park View Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, sends three hundred copies of Life and Health to the businessmen of the city, and Dr. J. F. Schneider, superintendent of the Georgia Sanitarium in Atlanta, Georgia, sends out five hundred copies each month. The Atlanta Health Home, managed by Elder A. C. Hughes, also uses three hundred copies.
Aside from health literature, the medical men are large users of evangelistic literature. One doctor uses five hundred Watchman each month. Others use large quantities of the Signs of the Times. All have participated heartily in the program of the Bible Study League. The Takoma Hospital and Sanitarium has taken as a project the covering of the eighteen counties in Tennessee, east of Knoxville. Eleven have already been covered. This means literature in every home. All the other medical centers have covered at least one county.
This blending of medical and evangelistic literature is bound to produce some fruitful results before the day of final reckoning. Certainly such efforts will hasten the glorious dawn.
