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Section 13—Medical Missionary Work and the
Gospel Ministry
A United Work
I wish to speak about the relation existing between the medical
missionary work and the gospel ministry. It has been presented to
me that every department of the work is to be united in one great
whole. The work of God is to prepare a people to stand before the
Son of man at His coming, and this work should be a unit. The work
that is to fit a people to stand firm in the last great day must not be a
divided work.
The ministry of the gospel is to present the truth which must
be received in order for people to be sanctified and made ready for
the coming of the Lord. And this work is to embrace all that was
embraced in Christ’s ministry. Gospel workers are to minister on the
right hand and on the left, doing their work intelligently and solidly.
There is to be no division between the ministry and the medical
work. The physician should labor equally with the minister, and
with as much earnestness and thoroughness for the salvation of the
soul as well as for the restoration of the body....
The Body—the Arm—the Head
The medical missionary work has never been presented to me
in any other way than as bearing the same relation to the work
as a whole as the arm does to the body. The gospel ministry is
an organization for the proclamation of the truth and the carrying
forward of the work for sick and well. This is the body, the medical
missionary work is the arm, and Christ is the head over all. Thus the
matter has been presented to me.
It has been urged that because the medical missionary work is
the arm of the body, there should be a oneness of respect shown.
This is so. The medical missionary work is the arm of the body, and
God wants us to take a decided interest in this work.
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