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Medical Ministry
have courage to overcome the difficulties that they meet in their
work.—
Letter 92, 1902
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Health Institutions in Many Lands
God has qualified His people to enlighten the world. He has
entrusted them with faculties by which they are to extend His work
until it shall encircle the globe. In all parts of the earth they are
to establish sanitariums, schools, publishing houses, and kindred
facilities for the accomplishment of His work.
The closing message of the gospel is to be carried to “every
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.”
Revelation 14:6
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foreign countries many enterprises for the advancement of this mes-
sage must yet be begun and carried forward. The opening of hygienic
restaurants and treatment rooms, and the establishment of sanitar-
iums for the care of the sick and the suffering, is just as necessary
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in Europe as in America. In many lands, medical missions are to
be established to act as God’s helping hand in ministering to the
afflicted.
Christ cooperates with those who engage in medical mission-
ary work. Men and women who unselfishly do what they can to
establish sanitariums and treatment rooms in many lands will be
richly rewarded. Those who visit these institutions will be benefited
physically, mentally, and spiritually—the weary will be refreshed,
the sick restored to health, the sin-burdened relieved. In far-off coun-
tries, from those whose hearts are by these agencies turned from the
service of sin unto righteousness, will be heard thanksgiving and the
voice of melody. By their songs of grateful praise a testimony will
be borne that will win others to allegiance and to fellowship with
Christ.—
Counsels on Health, 215.
Go Forward
When I think of the history of our work during the past ten years
I can but say, See what the Lord hath wrought. Mercifully He has
been working to shed light upon the pathway of His people. In spite
of the hindrances that have been met with in the work, we need not