Chapter 14—In Every Place
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Appeared in Notebook Leaflets, Christian Experience, No. 8.
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Christ was the great Medical Missionary to our world. He calls for
volunteers who will cooperate with Him in the great work of sowing
the world with truth. God’s workers are to plant the standards of
truth in every place to which they can gain access. The world needs
restoring. It is lying in wickedness and the greatest peril. God’s work
for those out of Christ should broaden and extend. God calls upon His
people to labor diligently for Him, so that Christian efficiency shall
become widespread. His kingdom is to be enlarged. Memorials for
Him are to be raised in America and in foreign countries.
The work of health reform connected with the present truth for
this time, is a power for good. It is the right hand of the gospel, and
often opens fields for the entrance of the gospel. But let it ever be
remembered that the work must move solidly and in complete har-
mony with God’s plan of organization. Churches are to be organized,
and in no case are these churches to divorce themselves from the
medical missionary work. Neither is the medical missionary work to
be divorced from the gospel ministry. When this is done, both are
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one-sided. Neither is a complete whole.
The work for this time is to appeal to the Christian’s mind as the
most important work that can be done. It is the question of cultivating
the Lord’s vineyard. In this vineyard every man has a lot and a place,
which the Lord has assigned him. And the success of each depends on
his individual relationship to the one Divine Head.
The grace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ and His tender re-
lationship to His church on earth are to be revealed by the growth
of His work and the evangelization of people in many places. The
heavenly principles of truth and righteousness are to be seen more and
still more plainly in the lives of Christ’s followers. More unselfishness
and uncovetousness is to be seen in business transactions than has
been seen in the churches since the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on
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