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Medical Ministry
consecration. Some seem to have no idea of the science of handling
money. They allow hundreds of dollars to pass through their hands
without producing anything for God....
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Cultivate Integrity, Self-Denial, and Humility
God calls upon you to straighten yourself out. Be a man. Put
away your extravagance. Extravagant ideas must not be indulged
under the name of medical missionary work. It is high time that
we became Christians in heart. Integrity, self-denial, and humility
should characterize our lives....
There is a great work to be done. Are you doing all you can
to help? God has given us a commission which angels might envy.
Medical missionary work is to be done. Thousands upon thousands
of human beings are perishing. The compassion of God is moved.
All heaven is looking on with intense interest to see what stamp
medical missionary work will assume under the supervision of hu-
man beings. Will men make merchandise of God’s ordained plan
for reaching the dark parts of the earth with a manifestation of His
benevolence?
Medical missionary work is a sacred thing of God’s own devis-
ing. After Adam’s transgression a costly price was paid to rescue the
fallen race. Those who will cooperate with God in His effort to save,
working on the lines on which Christ worked, will be wholly suc-
cessful. The church is charged to convey to the world, without delay,
God’s saving mercy. We are not to cover mercy with selfishness and
then call it medical missionary work.
The Church an Angel of Light
We have no time to waste. God has provided a means of recovery
for sinners. By unselfish work His truth is to be represented. This is
the trust He has given us, and it is to be faithfully executed.
When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented
as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting
gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and
directness with which the church is to prosecute her work. In the