God’s Purpose for His Institutions
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Remember that you are working for time and for eternity. Heav-
enly angels are commissioned to co-operate with your efforts for the
conquest of souls. More earnest efforts should be made to establish
the truth in various localities. And there must be no covering up of
any phase of our message. The truth for this time must be given to the
souls ready to perish. Those who in any way hide the truth dishonor
God. Upon their garments will be the blood of souls.
God’s Purpose for the Sanitarium
The Battle Creek Sanitarium is a broad missionary field. God has
been moving upon souls to seek in this institution relief from physical
suffering. He requires that everything connected with it shall be such
as He can approve.
He is pleased that a chapel should be built in connection with
the sanitarium, that those who visit the institution may be given an
opportunity to hear for themselves the truth as it is in Jesus. The
precious gospel is to be presented to them, not in a weak diluted
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style but in strong, warm accents. As it is made plain that godliness
is necessary to salvation, the peculiarities of our faith will appear,
distinguishing us from the world. But no tirade is to be made against
the doctrines held by others. In our association with worldlings we are
to recommend our faith by living, in all true modesty, the principles of
Christianity.
The Value of A Study of God’s Word
If the medical students will study the word of God diligently, they
will be far better prepared to understand their other studies; for en-
lightenment always comes with an earnest study of the word of God.
Let our medical missionary workers understand that the more they be-
come acquainted with God and with Christ, and the more they become
acquainted with Bible history, the better prepared they will be to do
their work.
The students in our schools should aspire to higher knowledge.
Nothing will so help to give them a retentive memory as a study of the
Scriptures. Nothing will so help them in gaining a knowledge of their
other studies.