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in being self-forgetful and self-sacrificing, remembering others and
carrying sunshine wherever they go.
There is great need that the pitying tenderness of Christ should
be manifested at all times and in all places—not that blind sympathy
which would gloss over sin and allow God’s cause to be reproached
by ill-doing, but that love which is a controlling principle of the life,
which flows out naturally to others in good works, remembering that
Christ has said: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
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these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”
Those at the Health Institute are engaged in a great work. During
the life of Christ the sick and afflicted were objects of His special care.
When He sent out His disciples He commissioned them to heal the sick
as well as to preach the gospel. When He sent forth the seventy He
commanded them to heal the sick, and next to preach that the kingdom
of God had come nigh unto them. Their physical health was to be first
cared for, in order that the way might be prepared for their minds to
be reached by those truths which the apostles were to preach.
The Saviour of the world devoted more time and labor to healing
the afflicted of their maladies than to preaching. His last injunction to
His apostles, His representatives upon the earth, was to lay hands on
the sick that they might recover. When the Master shall come, He will
commend those who have visited the sick and relieved the necessities
of the afflicted.
We are slow to learn the mighty influence of trifles and their bearing
upon the salvation of souls. At the Health Institute those who desire
to be missionaries have a large field in which to work. God does not
mean that any of us shall constitute a privileged few, who shall be
looked upon with great deference while others are neglected. Jesus
was the Majesty of heaven; yet He stooped to minister to the humblest,
having no respect to persons or station.
Those who have their whole hearts in the work will find at the
Health Institute enough to do for the Master in relieving the suffering
ones placed under their care. Our Lord, after performing the most
humiliating office for His disciples, recommended them to follow His
example. This was to keep constantly before them the thought that
they must not feel superior to the lowliest saint.
Those who profess our exalted faith, who are keeping God’s com-
mandments and expecting the soon coming of our Lord, should be