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A Plea For Medical Missionary Evangelists
[Manuscript read before the delegates at the General Conference,
Washington, D. C., June 1, 1909.]
We are living in the last days. The end of all things is at hand. The
signs foretold by Christ are fast fulfilling. There are stormy times
before us, but let us not utter one word of unbelief or discouragement.
He who understands the necessities of the situation arranges that
advantages should be brought to the workers in various places to
enable them more effectively to arouse the attention of the people.
He knows the needs and the necessities of the feeblest of His flock,
and He sends His own message into the highways and the byways.
He loves us with an everlasting love. Let us remember that we bear
a message of healing to a world filled with sin-sick souls. May the
Lord increase our faith and help us to see that He desires us all to
become acquainted with His ministry of healing and with the mercy
seat. He desires the light of His grace to shine forth from many
places.
Sanitariums as Missionary Agencies
There are souls in many places who have not yet heard the
message. Henceforth medical missionary work is to be carried
forward with an earnestness with which it has never yet been carried.
This work is the door through which the truth is to find entrance to
the large cities, and sanitariums are to be established in many places.
Sanitarium work is one of the most successful means of reaching
all classes of people. Our sanitariums are the right hand of the gospel,
opening ways whereby suffering humanity may be reached with the
glad tidings of healing through Christ. In these institutions the sick
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may be taught to commit their cases to the Great Physician, who
will co-operate with their earnest efforts to regain health, bringing
to them healing of soul as well as healing of body.
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