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Section 7—Fees and Wages
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As these things were presented before me, my Teacher said:
“The institutions that depend upon God and receive His cooperation
must ever work according to the principles of His law. To charge a
large sum for a few minutes’ work, is not just. Physicians who are
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under the discipline of the greatest Physician the world ever knew
must let the principles of the gospel regulate every fee. Let mercy
and love of God be written on every dollar received.”
When our sanitariums are conducted as they should be, a large
medical missionary work will be done. Everyone will do his work
in such a way and with such a spirit that he will shine as a light in
the world.
God calls for practical Christlike work. The patients who come
to our sanitariums are to see carried out the principles laid down in
the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. Those who have accepted the truth
are to practice it because it is the truth. In the work of God in our
institutions the truth is to be preserved in all its sacred influences.
Religious Principles to be Maintained
The medical practitioner should in all places keep his religious
principles clear and untarnished. Truth should be paramount in his
practice. He is to use his influence as a means of cleansing the
soul by the healing beams of the Sun of Righteousness. When a
time comes that physicians cannot do this, the Lord would have no
more medical institutions established among Seventh-day Adven-
tists. High prices are current in the world; but correct principles are
to be brought into our work. The Bible standard is to be maintained.
The way of the Lord, justice, mercy, and truth, is to be followed. No
exorbitant bills are to be sent in for slight operations. The charges
made are to be proportionate to the work done.
The work done in our medical institutions is to be true to the
name, “Medical Missionary Work.” We do not want the Lord to
think ill of us because we misrepresent the work of Christ. God
has not given us permission to do a work which will not bear the
investigation of the judgment. He does not want any institution
established by His people to bear a reputation similar to that borne
by Ananias and Sapphira. Desiring to gain a reputation for self-
sacrifice, liberality, and devotion to the Christian faith, Ananias and