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Section 8—Counsels and Cautions
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work that God has given to His medical missionaries. Our charge
has been given us by the greatest Medical Missionary that this world
has ever seen.—
Letter 210, 1903
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There is danger of Dr.-----’s seeking to meet the standard of the
world in his ideas and practice. He needs to seek the Lord at every
step. He should keep in view, not his own glory, but the glory of the
Lord.... And he is in danger of setting the medical missionary work
first, making it the body instead of the arm. He will not succeed
in this, and he must not attempt that which he cannot accomplish.
He will be ambitious to do great things by separating the medical
missionary work from the gospel ministry; but the Lord does not lead
His physicians to separate the medical missionary work from the
gospel ministry. Truth, present truth for this time, is to be believed
and acted upon in connection with the principles of health reform.
The Sabbath a Test for this Time
The sanitariums which are established are to be closely and
inseparably bound up with the gospel. The Lord has given instruction
that the gospel is to be carried forward; and the gospel includes
health reform in all its phases. Our work is to enlighten the world;
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for it is blind to the movements which are taking place, preparing
the way for the plagues which God will permit to come upon the
world. God’s faithful watchmen must give the warning.
Dr.-----has a desire to do large things. He is in danger of spending
his energies outside the sanitarium, instead of devoting all his powers
to making the institution a power in connection with the gospel
message and the Sabbath reform. Dr.-----needs to place himself
where he will understand the truth for this time. This is his only
safety as a physician. He needs to have his feet shod with the
preparation of the gospel.
He is in danger of becoming confused and of failing to see the
elevated, holy influence which the Sabbath question is to exert on
the work for this time. He will consider it necessary to do on the
Sabbath many things which should not be done on that day. If he
seeks to embrace so many responsibilities, he will come to pay very
little regard to the Sabbath. Such an influence will be a curse to the
institution. Those who are connected with our sanitariums are to