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Section 13—Medical Missionary Work and the Gospel Ministry
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not be neglected. These persons are stewards to whom God has com-
mitted important trusts. We should come close to this class, for I
know that many of them are soul burdened; they long for something,
they know not what.
If saved to Jesus Christ, they will be useful agents in the hands
of God to communicate the light to others. If converted to the truth,
they will have a special burden to draw other souls of this neglected
class to the light. They will feel that a dispensation of the gospel
is committed to them for those who have made the world their god.
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They need the awakening which the Holy Spirit of God can give
them, and those who have an experimental knowledge of the truth
are under obligation to God to communicate the precious light to
the world-absorbed, world-loving soul.
Some will be convicted and will heed the words spoken to them
in love and tenderness. They will acknowledge that the truth is the
very thing they need to set them free from the slavery of sin and
the bondage of worldly principles. There are opened before them
themes of thought, fields for action, that they had never comprehend.
In Jesus the Redeemer they discern infinite wisdom, infinite
justice, infinite mercy—depths, heights, lengths, and breadths of
love which passeth knowledge. Beholding the perfection of Christ’s
character, contemplating His mission, His love, His grace, His truth,
they are charmed; the great want of the soul is met, and they will
say with the psalmist, “I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy
likeness.” The divine object of faith and love they see to be Jesus
Christ; with them the love of the world, the worshiping of earthly
treasures, has come to an end....
By Personal Efforts and Living Faith
God would have the truth opened to the men to whom He has
given special endowments but who are ignorant of the soul’s great
necessity. There are some who are especially fitted to engage in
this work; there are those who should seek the Lord daily, making
it a study how to reach persons of this class, not to have merely a
casual acquaintance with them, but to lay hold of them by personal
effort and living faith, manifesting a deep love for their souls, a real