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Medical Ministry
moral image in man. It is His remedy for universal disorganization.
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It is the power that draws men together in unity.
To present these truths is the work of the third angel’s message.
The Lord designs that the presentation of this message shall be the
highest, greatest work carried on in our world at this time. That
this work may be carried forward on correct lines He has directed
the establishment of schools, sanitariums, publishing houses, and
other institutions. In these institutions the attributes of God are to be
unfolded, and the glory and excellence of the truth is to be made to
appear more vivid.—
Manuscript 166, 1899.
Opening Fast-Closed Doors
Every medical practitioner may through faith in Christ have in
his possession a cure of the highest value—a remedy for the sin-sick
soul. The physician who is converted and sanctified through the truth
is registered in heaven as a laborer together with God, a follower of
Jesus Christ.
Through the sanctification of the truth God makes physicians and
nurses skillful in a knowledge of how to treat the sick, and this work
is opening the fast-closed doors of many hearts. Men and women
are led to see and understand the truth which is needed to save the
soul as well as the body. This is an element that gives character to
the work for this time.
The medical missionary work is as the right hand and arm to
the third angel’s message which must be proclaimed to a fallen
world; and physicians, managers, and workers in any line, in acting
faithfully their part, are doing the work of the message. From them
the sound of the truth will go forth to every nation and kindred and
tongue and people. In this work the heavenly angels bear a part.
They awaken spiritual joy and melody in the hearts of those who
have been freed from suffering, and joy and thanksgiving to God
arise from many hearts that have received the precious truth....
Point to a Sin-Pardoning Saviour
The physician will find that it is for his present and eternal good
to follow the Lord’s way with suffering humanity. The mind that God