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Medical Ministry
everlasting life”? This earth has been trodden by the Son of God. He
came to bring men light and life, to set them free from the bondage
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of sin. He is coming again in power and great glory, to receive to
Himself those who during this life have followed in His footsteps.
His Name to be Honored
Oh, how I long to see those who claim to be medical missionaries
honoring the Great Exemplar, whose life declares what is compre-
hended in the claim to be a medical missionary! I would that they
were learning the Saviour’s meekness and lowliness. My heart aches
to think that Christ is so greatly disappointed in His followers. They
bear a name that their daily life does not give them the right to bear.
We must be sanctified, soul and body, through the truth; then
we shall honor the name, medical missionary. Oh, this name means
so much! It calls for a representation altogether different from
the representation given by many who bear it. Soon these will
understand how far they have departed from the principles of heaven,
and how greatly they have grieved the heart of Christ.—
Letter 117,
1903
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Understood Through Practice
When all our medical missionaries shall live the renewed life in
Christ Jesus, and shall take His words as meaning all that they are
designed to mean, there will be a much clearer and more comprehen-
sive understanding of what constitutes genuine medical missionary
work. And yet this line of work can best be understood by practicing
it in simplicity. The unfolding of this work will have a deeper mean-
ing to them after they obey the holy law engraven on tables of stone
by the finger of God, including the Sabbath commandment, concern-
ing which Christ Himself spoke through Moses to the children of
Israel....
Follow the Master
God’s servants who are doing genuine medical missionary work
have a most solemn, sacred responsibility resting upon them to keep
in view Christ’s life of unselfish service. They should turn their