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Medical Ministry
Never are we to rely upon worldly recognition and rank. Never
are we, in the establishment of institutions, to try to compete with
worldly institutions in size or splendor. The great desire of the
managers of our sanitariums should be so to walk in obedience to
the Lord that all the helpers connected with these institutions can by
faith walk with God as did Enoch.
The Lord will guide all who humbly walk with Him. Humble
men who trust in Him will be the most successful workers in His
cause. We shall gain the victory, not by erecting massive buildings
in rivalry with our enemies, but by cherishing a Christlike spirit of
meekness and lowliness. Better far the cross and disappointed hopes,
than to live with princes and forfeit heaven. Truth will be bitterly
opposed, but never will it lose its vitality.—
Manuscript 109, 1902.
Disadvantages of Large Institutions
“Break up the large centers,” has been the word of the Lord.
“Carry the light to many places.” Those who are desirous of receiving
a training for effective medical missionary work should understand
that large sanitariums will be conducted so much like institutions of
the world that students laboring in such sanitariums cannot obtain a
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symmetrical training for Christian medical missionary work.
The proclamation of the truth in all parts of the world calls for
small sanitariums in many places, not in the heart of cities, but in
places where city influences will be as little felt as possible.
I am obliged to say that the making of so large a plant in-----
and the calling together of those who should be engaged in medical
missionary work in many places, is doing just what God has specified
should not be done.
Danger in Separation From the Gospel
The fact that many patients are coming to the new sanitarium
at-----is not to be read as a sign that the planning for so large work
there was for the best. To this large institution will come many men
and women who are not really sick. Workers will be required to wait
on them; our nurses will become the servants of worldly men and
women who are not inclined to piety or religion. But this is not the