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Testimonies for the Church Volume 8
“One man is not to think that he can be conscience for all the
medical workers. Human beings are to look to the Lord God of heaven
alone for wisdom and guidance.
“In establishing and developing medical institutions, our brethren
must not be asked to work in accordance with the plans of a kingly,
ruling power. A change must be brought about. The plan to fasten
every medical institution to the central organization at Battle Creek
must be relinquished. This plan God forbids.
“For years I have been instructed that there is danger, constant
danger, that our brethren will look to their fellow men for permission
to do this or that, instead of looking to God. Thus they become weak-
lings, and permit themselves to be bound with man-made restrictions
disapproved by God. The Lord can impress minds and consciences to
do His work under bonds to Him, and in a spirit of fraternity that is in
accordance with the principles of His law....
“God knows the future. He is the One to whom we are to look
for guidance. Let us trust Him to direct us in the development of the
various branches of His work. Let none attempt to labor in accordance
with unsanctified impulses....
“The division of the General Conference into District Union Con-
ferences was God’s arrangement. In the work of the Lord for these last
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days there should be no Jerusalem centers, no kingly power. And the
work in the different countries is not to be bound by contracts to the
work centering in Battle Creek, for this is not God’s plan. Brethren
are to counsel together, for we are just as much under the control of
God in one part of His vineyard as in another. Brethren are to be one
in heart and soul, even as Christ and the Father are one. Teach this,
practice this, that we may be one with Christ in God, all working to
build up one another.
“The kingly power formerly revealed in the General Conference at
Battle Creek is not to be perpetuated. The publishing institution is not
to be a kingdom of itself. It is essential that the principles that govern
in General Conference affairs should be maintained in the management
of the publishing work and the sanitarium work. One is not to think
that the branch of the work with which he is connected is of vastly
more importance than other branches.
“Educational work must be done in every sanitarium that shall be
established. God has control of the work, and no one is to feel that