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justice, and the Lord has instructed me that He would not approve of
such discrimination.”
The Lord calls for self-denial in His service, and this obligation is
binding upon physicians as well as upon ministers. We have before
us an aggressive work which requires means, and we must call into
service young men to labor as ministers and as physicians, not for the
highest wages, but because of the great needs of God’s cause. The
Lord is not pleased with this spirit of grasping for the highest wages.
We need physicians and ministers whose hearts are consecrated to
God, and who receive their marching orders from the greatest Medical
Missionary that has ever trod this earth. Let them behold His life of
self-denial, and then gladly sacrifice, in order that more workers may
engage in sowing the gospel seed. If all will work in this spirit, less
wages will be required.
Some have failed on this point. God has blessed them with ability
to do acceptable service, but they have failed to learn lessons of econ-
omy, of self-denial, and of walking humbly with God. Their demands
for high wages were granted, and they became extravagant in the use
of means; they lost the influence for good they should have had, and
the prospering hand of God was not with them. Beware of placing too
great confidence in those who demand high wages before they will
engage in the Lord’s work. I write you this as a caution.—
Letter 330,
1906
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Counsel to a Physician Regarding a Fixed Salary
The plan that you are to receive above your wages any money that
you may make in certain lines of work, is opening a door of temptation
which will lead to evil results. This is not discerned by you or by those
who drew up these articles of agreement. But it will be the means of
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great injury to you, and will bring reproach upon the cause of God.
There is in this plan an erroneous principle, which must be considered.
Nothing is to be left at loose ends. Everything is to be bound off. You
are to receive a definite sum as wages for your work, and live within
that sum.
Something of this character has been carried on in the negotiations
with Dr. U. It is a fraudulent transaction. God sees its tendency
and its result. This method of remuneration is not to be carried out