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all classes, there is danger that this work will eclipse the message that
God has given us to bear in every city—the proclamation of the soon
coming of Christ, the necessity of obedience to the commandments
of God and the testimony of Jesus. This message is the burden of
our work. It is to be proclaimed with a loud cry and is to go to the
whole world. In both home and foreign fields the presentation of health
principles must be united with it, but not be independent of it or in any
way take its place; neither should this work absorb so much attention
as to belittle other branches. The Lord has instructed us to consider the
work in all its bearings, that it may have a proportionate, symmetrical,
well-balanced development.
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The truth for this time embraces the whole gospel. Rightly pre-
sented it will work in man the very changes that will make evident
the power of God’s grace upon the heart. It will do a complete work
and develop a complete man. Then let no line be drawn between
the genuine medical missionary work and the gospel ministry. Let
these two blend in giving the invitation: “Come; for all things are now
ready.” Let them be joined in an inseparable union, even as the arm is
joined to the body.
Medical Missionary Workers
The Lord has need of all kinds of skillful workmen. “He gave
some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some,
pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of
the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in
the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a
perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:11-13
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Every child of God should have sanctified judgment to consider the
cause as a whole and the relation of each part to every other part, that
none may lack. The field is large, and there is a great work of reform
to be carried forward, not in one or two lines, but in every line. The
medical missionary work is a part of this work of reform, but it should
never become the means of separating the workers in the ministry from
their field of labor. The education of students in medical missionary
lines is not complete unless they are trained to work in connection
with the church and the ministry, and the usefulness of those who are