Uphold the Medical Work
163
angel’s message. Special lines of work are to be taken up, such as
the medical missionary work. This work should be carried forward in
connection with the gospel message for this time. Genuine medical
missionary work is the gospel practiced. Those who cannot see the
bearing of this work should not feel authorized to control any phase of
it until they do understand its bearing.
I wish to say decidedly that the Lord has accomplished great good
through the medical missionary work, and that He has used our leading
physician as His appointed agent. Not everything in the medical work
has been without a flaw. With it have been blended many things that
have marred its sacredness. But the Lord will take supervision of His
cause, and will see that it does not become disproportionate in this one
branch. The work will not be marred if the church will arise and shine,
making it manifest that her light has come, and that the glory of the
Lord is risen upon her.
The medical missionary workers are to be purified, sanctified,
ennobled. They are to rise to the highest point of excellence. They are
to be molded and fashioned after the divine similitude. Then they will
see that health reform and medical missionary work are to be bound
up with the preaching of the gospel.
[169]
The reason why church members do not understand this branch of
the work is that they are not following the light, walking step by step
after their great Leader. The medical missionary work is of God and
bears His signature. For this reason let man keep his hands off it and
not desire to manage it according to his own ideas.
Our message is a world-wide message. And while means is not to
be absorbed in one line of work, so that the last gospel message cannot
be carried into new fields, the medical missionary work is not in any
wise to be disparaged; it is not to be represented as an inferior work.
The world is a great lazar house; it is corrupted under the inhabitants
thereof, and misery is universal. The Lord has given our leading
physician a work in aiding to prepare a people to stand in the great day
of God. But he is to work under the supervision of God. There are
some things in his labors that will have to be modeled more closely
after the principles of the head worker.