Unity of Effort
Cooranbong, N. S. W.,
April 17, 1899
To a Physician in Perplexity:
My Dear Brother,
I have a deep interest in you and your work, and I pray that the
Lord will guide my pen as I write to you. The Lord has made you a
man of His appointment, and angels of God have been your helpers.
The Lord has placed you in the position that you occupy, not because
you are infallible but because He desires to guide your mind by His
Holy Spirit. He desires you to impart to those with whom you come in
contact a knowledge of present truth. Grave responsibilities have been
entrusted to you, and on no account should you allow yourself to be
entangled in work that will weaken your influence with Seventh-day
Adventists. The Lord has chosen you to fill a place of His appointment,
to stand before the medical profession, not to be molded by worldly
influences, but to mold minds. Every day you are to be under the
supervision of God. He is your Master, your Redeemer. He has a work
for you to do, not separated from Seventh-day Adventists, but united
with them. You are to be a great blessing to your brethren by giving
them the knowledge that He has given you.
Through you God has worked and desires still to work, honoring
you by entrusting to you important responsibilities. “We are laborers
together with God.”
1 Corinthians 3:9
. He will use you and me and
each human being who enters His service, if we will submit to His
guidance. Each one is to stand in his watchtower, listening attentively
to that which the Spirit has to say to him, remembering that his every
word and act makes an impression, not only on his own character, but
on the characters of those with whom he is connected.
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