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Medical Ministry
lifework of the Great Missionary. The object of our mission is the
same as the object of Christ’s mission. Why did God send His Son
to the fallen world? To make known and to demonstrate to mankind
His love for them. Christ came as a Redeemer. Throughout His
ministry He was to keep prominent His mission to save sinners....
God’s purpose in committing to men and women the mission
that He committed to Christ is to disentangle His followers from all
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worldly policy and to give them a work identical with the work that
Christ did.—
Manuscript 130, 1902.
The Source of Success
The Lord has instructed us that all our sanitariums are to be
conducted, not as if the success of the work done were due to the
skill of the physicians, but because of the divine power connected
with the physician. The Great Healer is to be magnified. It is to
be represented that the favor of God is on the institution because
the principles of health reform are respected and because Christ is
acknowledged as the Chief Physician. Our sanitariums have been in
the past, and will continue to be, if rightly conducted, a means of
blessing and uplifting to humanity. If the truth is rightly represented,
those who patronize our sanitariums will learn much regarding its
principles, and many will be converted. These institutions have
been represented to me as beacon lights showing forth the truth
as it is in Jesus. The Lord Jesus is the great minister of healing,
and His presence in our institutions has been a savor of life unto
life. Christ came to the world as the Great Physician of mankind.
Our sanitariums, wherever they are established, should be made
educational forces. The Lord would be pleased to have you with
chosen helpers build up your work to do a more special work in
religious lines.
Wonderful has been the working out of God’s plan in the es-
tablishment of so many health institutions. Intemperance of every
kind is taking the world captive, and those who are true educators
at this time, those who instruct along the lines of self-denial and
self-sacrifice, will have their reward. Now is our time, now is our
opportunity, to do a blessed work.—
Letter 50, 1909
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