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Section 13—Medical Missionary Work and the Gospel Ministry
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His religion led to the doing of genuine medical missionary work.
He was a healing power. “I will have mercy, and not sacrifice,” He
said. This is the test that the great Author of truth used to distinguish
between true religion and false. God wants His medical missionaries
to act with the tenderness and compassion that Christ would show
were He in our world.—
Manuscript 117, 1903.
True Charity
It is only by an unselfish interest in those in need of help that
we can give a practical demonstration of the truths of the gospel.
“If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one
of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;
notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful
to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works,
is dead, being alone.” “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
three; but the greatest of these is charity.” Much more than mere
sermonizing is included in preaching the gospel. The ignorant are
to be enlightened; the discouraged are to be uplifted; the sick are to
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be healed. The human voice is to act its part in God’s work. Words
of tenderness, sympathy, and love are to be witness to the truth.
Earnest, heartfelt prayers are to bring the angels near.”—
An Appeal
for a Medical Missionary College, pages 13, 14
.
The Atmosphere of Love
Visiting the sick, comforting the poor and the sorrowful for
Christ’s sake, will bring to the workers the bright beams of the Sun
of Righteousness, and even the countenance will express the peace
that dwells in the soul. The faces of men and women who talk with
God, to whom the invisible world is a reality, express the peace
of God. They carry with them the soft and genial atmosphere of
heaven, and diffuse it in deeds of kindness and works of love. Their
influence is of a character to win souls to Christ. If all could see
and understand, and be doers of the words of God, what peace, what
happiness, what health of body and peace of soul, would be the
result! A warm, kindly atmosphere of love, the pitying tenderness
of Christ in the soul, cannot be estimated. The price of love is above