"A Danger to Be Guarded Against While students are being educated in this way, they are being made less able to do acceptable work for the Master. The taxation that they undergo to obtain an extended knowledge in medical lines unfits them to work as they should in ministerial lines. Physical and mental weariness come because of the overstrain of study, and because the students are encouraged to labor unduly for the outcasts and the degraded. Thus some are disqualified for the work that they might have done had they begun missionary work where it was needed and let the medical line come in as an essential part connected with the work of the gospel ministry as a whole, as the hand is connected with the body. Life is not to be imperiled in an effort to obtain a medical education. There is danger, in some cases, that students will ruin their health and unfit themselves to do the service they might have done had they not been unwisely encouraged to take a medical course. 8T 163"
"Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;"
Both passages address the issue of insufficient laborers for a specific task. Matthew 9:37 speaks of the lack of laborers for the harvest, while the EGW passage discusses how over-emphasis on medical training can hinder individuals from effectively engaging in ministerial work.
"medical lines who ought to be preparing themselves most decidedly to proclaim the third angel's message. It is not necessary for our medical students to spend all the time that they are spending in medical studies. Their work should be more decidedly combined with a study of God's word. Ideas are inculcated that are not at all necessary, and the necessary things do not receive sufficient attention. 8T 163.1"
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
The EGW passage directly echoes the principle of prioritizing spiritual matters (God's word) over other pursuits (medical studies), aligning with Matthew 6:33's call to seek first the kingdom of God.