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Medical Ministry
all narrowness must be set aside, and we must call into exercise the
love of Christ. The joy we experience in this love will be a blessing
to others.
Deep Earnestness and Joy
I am bidden to say to the sanitarium family, Let your social
meetings, and all your religious exercises, be characterized by a
deep earnestness and a joy that expresses the love of God in the
soul. Such meetings will be profitable to all; for they will bind
heart to heart. Let there be earnest seasons of prayer; for prayer will
give strength to the religious experience. Confess Christ openly and
bravely, and manifest at all times the meekness of Christ.
The Lord would have the family of workers at Loma Linda chan-
nels of light. If we will keep the heart and mind opened heavenward,
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cherishing the comfort of His grace in the heart, the presence of
Christ will be revealed. Let earnestness and zeal come into your
lives. Make no backward movements. The Lord is our helper, our
guide, our shield, our exceeding great reward. Do not allow levity
to come into your experience, but cultivate cheerfulness; for this is
an excellent grace. We cannot afford to be unmindful of our words
and deportment....
We all have very much to be thankful for; let us open our lips
in praise and thanksgiving to God. Let us come nearer to the Lord
Jesus, and acknowledge our daily obligations to Him. He has made
it possible for us to secure for ourselves a very happy life even in
this world of sin, and holds out the hope of being continually in His
presence in the kingdom He is preparing for His people. Should not
these thoughts call forth from us praise and thanksgiving?—
Letter
260, 1907
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The Observance of the Sabbath
Genuine medical missionary work is bound up inseparably with
the keeping of God’s commandments, of which the Sabbath is es-
pecially mentioned, since it is the great memorial of God’s creative
work. Its observance is bound up with the work of restoring the
moral image of God in man. This is the ministry which God’s people