Words of Encouragement
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Never are His servants to leave one duty marred or incomplete in order
to seize hold of another. He who labors in the calmness of the fear of
God will not work in a haphazard manner, for fear that something will
hinder an anticipated plan.
Not all the burdens that you have been carrying have been laid
upon you by the Lord. The result of your carrying these extra burdens
is felt all through the field. If you had kept at your appointed work,
laboring for the class of people whom the Lord desired, by means of
the sanitarium, to reach with present truth, with the message that God
has given His people to give to the world, much more would have
been accomplished to bring the chosen people of God before men of
high standing. Much more would have been accomplished to show
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forth the ways and works and power of God. The sanitarium was to be
His witness in behalf of truth—elevated, sanctifying truth. The Lord
made you, my brother, His honored instrument. He never required
from you one task that would crowd out your work in connection with
the institution that was to stand for the truth, to do a certain work for
God, flashing light upon the pathway of thousands.
You have a great and sacred work to do. If you hold faithfully
to the part assigned you, through the skill given you you will be
enabled to work swiftly, though never appearing to be in a hurry.
When your eyes are opened, you will see the deep poverty of the
mission fields. You will see that the workers there are hampered at
every step, while the Lord’s money is being used to sustain home
enterprises and institutions, so that the message which should be given
to the world is lost sight of.
God impresses different men to be laborers together with Him. One
man is not authorized to gather too many responsibilities upon himself.
The Lord would have the physician upon whom so much depends
so closely connected with Him that his spirit will not be irritated by
little things. The Lord desires you to be one of the most efficient
workers in the medical profession, slighting nothing, marring nothing,
knowing that you have a Counselor close by your side, to sustain and
strengthen you, to impart quietness and calm to your soul. Feverishness
of mind and uncertainty of spirit will make the hand unskillful. The
touch of Christ upon the physician’s hand brings vitality, restfulness,
confidence, and power.