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Medical Ministry
Lead the People
We must not move presumptuously. The laborers who enter
new territory to raise up churches must not create difficulties by
attempting to make prominent the question of diet. They should be
careful not to draw the lines too closely. Impediments would thus
be thrown on the pathway of others. Do not drive the people. Lead
them. Preach the word as it is in Christ Jesus. The health journal
will help you to learn not only how to prepare healthful food and
how to give treatment to the sick, but also how to instruct others
in these lines. Workers must put forth resolute, persevering effort,
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remembering that everything cannot be learned at once. They must
have a fixed determination patiently to teach the people.
Wherever the truth is carried, the people should be given instruc-
tion in regard to the preparation of healthful foods. God desires that
in every place the people should be taught by skillful teachers how
to utilize wisely the products that they can raise or readily obtain in
their section of the country. Thus the poor, as well as those in better
circumstances, can be taught to live healthfully.—
Letter 135, 1902
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Labor Lost Without Instruction
It is labor lost to teach people to go to God as a healer of their
infirmities unless they are educated to lay aside every wrong practice
and cease to indulge perverted appetite. They must be taught to use
the provisions God has given. To refuse the remedies which they
may as well have as not without paying a doctor’s fee, to neglect to
let into every room in the house God’s pure air and sunshine, shows a
lack of faith in Him. Faith in God’s power to heal infirmities is dead
unless the one diseased improves the light God has given him by
bringing his habits into harmony with right principles.—
Manuscript
86, 1897.
Educate, Educate, Educate
We must educate, educate, educate, pleasantly and intelligently.
We must preach the truth, pray the truth, and live the truth, bringing
it with its gracious, health-giving influences within the reach of
those who know it not. As the sick are brought into touch with the