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Medical Ministry
for such souls, and some will appreciate the foundation upon a rock
for their religious faith.
There is to be no startling communication of strange doctrine to
these subjects whom God loves and pities; but as they are helped
physically by the medical missionary workers, the Holy Spirit co-
operates with the minister of human agencies to arouse the moral
powers. The mental powers are awakened into activity, and these
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poor souls will, many of them, be saved in the kingdom of God.—
Special Testimonies for Ministers and Workers, No. 11, page 32
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The Poor Not to Be Neglected
We are living in the last days of this earth’s history, and medical
missionary work is to be all that the name signifies. To the poor the
gospel is to be preached. The poor man as well as the rich man is the
object of God’s special care and attention. Take away poverty, and
we should have no way of understanding the mercy and love of God,
no way of knowing the compassionate and sympathetic heavenly
Father.
Those who have the truth for these last days will bear a message
adapted to the poor. One would think that the gospel was inspired in
order to reach this class. Christ came to the earth to walk and work
among the poor. To the poor He preached the gospel. His work is the
gospel worked out on medical missionary lines—in justice, mercy,
and the love of God which is the sure fruit borne because the tree is
good. And today in the person of His believing, working children,
who move under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Christ visits the
poor and the needy, relieving want and alleviating suffering.—
Letter
83, 1902
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Labor for the Wealthy
Those who will exercise their God-given ability for the con-
version to the truth of the intellectual, the refined, and the world-
absorbed wealthy class, are doing a good and essential work. Many
look upon this class as hopeless, and they do little to open the eyes
of those who, blinded and dazed by the power of Satan, have lost
eternity out of their reckoning. But here is a field of labor that should