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Section 13—Medical Missionary Work and the Gospel Ministry
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Earnest Appeal to Physicians
I am concerned because so many things engage the minds of our
physicians which keep them from the work that God would have
them do as evangelists. From the light that God has given me I
know that the living preacher who is consecrated and devoted, and
knows how to put his trust in God, is greatly needed. We need one
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hundred workers where now we have one. There is a great work to
be done before satanic opposition shall close up the way and our
present opportunities for labor shall be lost. Time is rapidly passing.
Our publications are numerous, but the Lord calls for the men and
women in our churches who have the light to engage in genuine
missionary work. Let them in all humility exercise their God-given
talents in proclaiming the message that should come to the world at
this time.
I hope you will exercise all your capabilities in this work. Present
the importance of present truth from the physician’s standpoint. The
Lord has declared that the educated physician will find entrance in
our cities where other men cannot. Teach the message of health
reform. This will have an influence with the people.
Let us study our Bibles, and teach the words of truth. Let us do
as Christ’s apostles did; let us offer prayer for the sick, for there are
many who cannot have the advantages of our sanitariums. The Lord
will remove infirmities in answer to prayer. Gospel ministers should
be able to present the subject of health reform in its simplicity. If
this phase of present truth is presented in a clear, simple, Christlike
manner, it will have an effect upon the people. There will be a
response from many hearts.—
Letter 128, 1909
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Many Saved From Degradation
I have been shown that the medical missionary work will dis-
cover, in the very depths of degradation, men who once possessed
fine minds, richest qualifications, who will be rescued by proper
labor from their fallen condition. It is the truth as it is in Jesus that is
to be brought before human minds after they have been sympatheti-
cally cared for and their physical necessities met. The Holy Spirit is
working and cooperating with the human agencies that are laboring