Chapter 40—Medical Missionary Work
The Present Need
1135. The prosperity of the medical missionary work is in God’s
order. This work must be done; the truth must be carried to the high-
ways and hedges.—
Special Testimony to Ministers and Workers, No.
10, 30
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1136. Why has it not been understood from the word of God that
the work being done in medical missionary lines is a fulfilment of the
scriptures? “Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and
bring hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind....
Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that
my house may be filled.”—
The Review and Herald, May 25, 1897
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1137. The educational work in medical missionary lines is a
great advance step toward awakening man to a sense of his moral
responsibilities.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
.
1138. As religious aggression subverts the liberties of our nation,
those who would stand for freedom of conscience will be placed in
unfavorable positions. For their own sakes they should, while they
have opportunity, become intelligent in regard to disease, its causes,
prevention, and cure. Those who do this will find a field of labor
anywhere. There will be suffering ones, plenty of them, who will need
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help, not only among those of our own faith, but largely among those
who know not the truth.—
The Medical Missionary, 216
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Aim to Educate
1139. They need an education in the science of how to treat the
sick, for this will give them a welcome in any place.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, December 20, 1896
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1140. If we would elevate the moral standard of any country where
we may be called to go, we must begin by correcting the physical
habits of the people.—
The Medical Missionary, 216
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