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faithful stewards to repress the evils that needed to be repressed. Can
we, then, be surprised that there is great spiritual blindness?
Those engaged in the gospel ministry need to learn of Christ His
meekness and lowliness, and to be thoroughly converted, that their lives
may testify to a world dead in trespasses and sins that they have been
born again. Medical missionary workers, also, need to be converted.
When they are converted, their influence will be a power for good in
the world. They will be willing to receive counsel and help from their
brethren, because they have been sanctified through the truth. Daily
they will receive rich supplies of grace from heaven to impart to others.
To every one of His appointed agencies the Lord sends the message:
“Take your position at your post of duty, and then stand firm for the
right.” To all I am instructed to say: “Find your place. Receive not
the fanciful sentiments of men who are not taught by God. Christ is
waiting to give you insight into heavenly things, waiting to quicken
your spiritual pulse to renewed activity. No longer subordinate the
claims of future, eternal interests to the common affairs of this life. ‘Ye
cannot serve God and mammon.’
Matthew 6:24
. Wake up, brethren,
wake up.”
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The breadth of gospel medical missionary work is not understood.
The medical missionary work now called for is that outlined in the
commission which Christ gave to His disciples just before His ascen-
sion. “All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth,” He said.
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am
with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
Matthew 28:18-20
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These words point out our field and our work. Our field is the
world; our work the proclamation of the truths which Christ came
to our world to proclaim. Men and women are to have opportunity
to gain a knowledge of present truth, an opportunity to know that
Christ is their Saviour, that God so loved the world, that He gave His
only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
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