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Medical Ministry
In the building of the tabernacle, tact and skill were given to the
Israelites. To His people today the Lord will give tact and skill to
do His work. To all who have a part in His cause, He will impart
wisdom. But they must depend wholly upon Him. They must be
willing to be controlled and guided by Him. As a people we must
walk and work as men and women accountable to God.
Some on their own responsibility have taken up sanitarium work.
Some have entered into this work as a speculation, hoping to make
money. Their principal aim was not so much to heal the bodies and
souls of the sick as to make money. These have begun to learn that to
engage in sanitarium work means much more than they anticipated.
Many unjust deeds are done in the hope of getting gain. The Lord
has witnessed these deeds. No unrighteous act passes unnoticed. All
that is gained in this way will be found to be loss, eternal loss.
God’s Instrumentalities to be Pure, Holy, Elevated
Our sanitariums are God’s instrumentalities, and they are to stand
firmly in defense of the truth, making their influence a living demon-
stration of the power of the gospel. They are to be elevated, pure,
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holy, carrying forward the work in reformatory lines. Those con-
nected with our sanitariums are to keep self in subordination, taking
themselves to task, pruning from their practices all unrighteousness.
Not a thread of selfishness is to be drawn into the web. But this
has been done, and will continue to be done unless God’s professing
people receive the new heart that makes the actions holy. Unless
they reform, unless their characters are changed, they will be left
outside the City of God; for within its gates can enter nothing that
defiles. Only those who are without spot or wrinkle or any such
thing will pass in the grand review. Unholy ambition will prove the
ruin of many souls. This is the word that I am instructed to give to
all who claim to believe present truth.
Departure from Correct Principles
Men have entered into the sanitarium work for the purpose of
gain more than from a desire to do missionary work for Christ. They
have not realized their responsibility to labor as consecrated, devoted