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are often made up by the special gifts of another.—
Counsels to Parents,
Teachers, and Students, 521
.
Minister, teacher, medical missionary, and canvasser should
respect and appreciate each other—The preaching of the Word is
a means by which the Lord has ordained that His warning message
shall be given to the world. In the Scriptures the faithful teacher is
represented as a shepherd of the flock of God. He is to be respected
and his work appreciated. Genuine medical missionary work is bound
up with the ministry, and the canvassing work is to be a part both of
the medical missionary work and of the ministry.—
Testimonies for
the Church 6:323
.
Medical Missionaries
The medical missionary work and the gospel ministry must
not be separated—The medical missionary work is not to be carried
forward as something apart from the work of the gospel ministry. The
Lord’s people are to be one. There is to be no separation in His work.
Time and means are being absorbed in a work which is carried forward
too earnestly in one direction. The Lord has not appointed this. He
sent out his twelve apostles and afterward the seventy to preach the
Word to the people, and He gave them power to heal the sick and
to cast out devils in his name. The two lines of work must not be
separated. Satan will invent every possible scheme to separate those
whom God is seeking to make one. We must not be misled by his
devices. The medical missionary work is to be connected with the
work of the third angel’s message, as the hand is connected with the
body; and the education of students in medical missionary lines is not
complete unless they are trained to work in connection with the church
and the ministry.—
Counsels on Health, 557
.
Ministers and medical workers should cooperate with each
other—He calls upon His people to work in harmony. He calls upon
those engaged in our medical work to unite with the ministry: He calls
upon the ministers to cooperate with the medical missionary workers:
and He calls upon the church to take up their appointed duty, holding
up the standard of true reform in their own territory, leaving the trained
and experienced workers to press on into new fields.—
Testimonies for
the Church 6:292
.