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Medical Ministry
concern that they shall have knowledge of the truth as it is presented
in the word of God....
This class have been sadly neglected. The workers have judged
from appearance, and have taken it as a certainty that they would
labor in vain. But these persons whom God has gifted, ministers
and people, are to be laid hold of by the hand of living faith. Let the
workers grasp the promises of God, saying, “Thou hast promised,
‘Ask, and ye shall receive.’ I must have this soul converted to Jesus
Christ.” Solicit prayer for the souls for whom you labor; present
them before the church as objects for the supplication. It will be
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just what the church needs, to have their minds called from their
little, petty difficulties, to feel a great burden, a personal interest, for
a soul that is ready to perish. Select another and still another soul,
daily seeking guidance from God, laying everything before Him in
earnest prayer, and working in divine wisdom. As you do this, you
will see that God will give the Holy Spirit to convict, and the power
of the truth to convert, the soul.
I have been shown that thousands of wealthy men have gone to
their graves unwarned, because they have been judged from appear-
ance, and passed by as hopeless subjects. The Lord would have this
order of things changed. Let judicious men enter upon the work,
men who as yet have done nothing in this line because it has seemed
forbidding and hopeless. It is a great and important work, and God
will endow men with wisdom to undertake it.
It will be by no casual, accidental touch that these wealthy, world-
loving, world-worshiping souls will be drawn to Christ. Decided
personal effort must be put forth by men and women imbued with
the missionary spirit, who will not fail nor be discouraged. The
messenger of God is ever to bear in mind that the universe of heaven
have long been waiting to cooperate with the human agents in this
work which has been shunned and neglected.—
Letter 47, 1894
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The Value of Medical Work
Some utterly fail to realize the importance of missionaries’ be-
ing also medical missionaries. A gospel minister will be twice as
successful in his work if he understands how to treat disease. Contin-
ually increasing light has been given me on this subject. Some, who