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straightforward investigation of the heart is essential. The student
must place himself where he can draw from the Source of spiritual and
intellectual power. He must require that every cause which asks his
sympathy and co-operation has the approval of the reason which God
has given him, and the conscience, which the Holy Spirit is controlling.
He is not to perform an action that does not harmonize with the deep,
holy principles which minister light to his soul and vigor to his will.
Only thus can he do God the highest service. He is not to be taught
that medical missionary work will bind him to any man, who shall
dictate what his work shall be.
Medical missionary work is not to be drawn apart and made sepa-
rate from church organization. The medical students are not to receive
the idea that they may regard themselves as amenable only to the
leaders in the medical work. They are to be left free to receive coun-
sel from God. They are not to pledge themselves and their future to
anything that erring human beings may outline for them. No thread
of selfishness is to be drawn into the web; no scheme is to be devised
that has in it one particle of injustice. Selfishness is not to control any
line of the work. Let us remember that individually we are working in
full view of the heavenly universe.
A High Standard
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy
neighbor as thyself.”
Luke 10:27
. Just before He left His disciples
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to return to heaven, Christ declared: “A new commandment I give
unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also
love one another.” Here we see the standard lifted higher and still
higher. “By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye
have love one to another.”
John 13:34, 35
. The disciples could not then
comprehend Christ’s words; but after His crucifixion, resurrection, and
ascension they understood His love as never before. They had seen it
expressed in His suffering in the garden, in the judgment hall, and in
His death on the cross of Calvary.