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Medical Ministry
impart to others. Thus they are constantly kept in spiritual nearness
to God. They reflect the image of Christ.
Sanctified love is diffusive, refusing to be bound by the home
or the church. It seeks to save perishing souls. Every heart that has
felt the love of a sin-forgiving Saviour finds itself allied to every
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other Christian heart. True believers will unite with one another
in working for souls ready to perish. Let not our ministers expend
time and energy in laboring for those who know the truth. Let them
instead seek for those outside the fold, and each should stimulate
the other to earnest action in well-defined, sanctified efforts to save
the poor souls who are perishing in their sins.
A Living Church
When our churches will fulfill the duty resting upon them, they
will be living, working agencies for the Master. The manifestation
of Christian love will fill the soul with a deeper, more earnest fervor
to work for Him who gave His life to save the world. By being good
and doing good Christ’s followers expel selfishness from the soul.
To them the most costly sacrifice seems too cheap to give. They
see a large vineyard to be worked, and they realize that they must
be prepared by divine grace to labor patiently, earnestly, in season
and out of season, in a sphere which knows no boundaries. They
obtain victory after victory, increasing in experience and efficiency,
extending on all sides their earnest efforts to win souls for Christ.
They use to the best advantage their increasing experience; their
hearts are melted by the love of Christ.
Opportunities
All can labor for the salvation of those who are out of the ark of
safety. When church members stand pledged to the service of God,
pledged to do missionary work, when they take hold of the work
unselfishly because they love the souls for whom Christ has died
and are desirous of uniting with the great Medical Missionary, the
Lord will come very near to them to instruct them. Life is full of
opportunities for practical missionaries. Every man, woman, and
child can sow each day the seeds of kind words and unselfish deeds.