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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
Christ is no longer in this world in person, to go through our cities
and towns and villages, healing the sick; but He has commissioned
us to carry forward the medical missionary work that He began. In
this work we are to do our very best. Institutions for the care of the
sick are to be established, where men and women suffering from
disease may be placed under the care of God-fearing physicians and
nurses, and be treated without drugs.
I have been instructed that we are not to delay to do the work
that needs to be done in health reform lines. Through this work we
are to reach souls in the highways and byways. I have been given
special light that in our sanitariums many souls will receive and
obey present truth. In these institutions men and women are to be
taught how to care for their own bodies and at the same time how
to become sound in the faith. They are to be taught what is meant
by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of God. Said
Christ: “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they
are life.”
John 6:63
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Our sanitariums are to be schools in which instruction shall be
given in medical missionary lines. They are to bring to sin-sick souls
the leaves of the tree of life, which will restore to them peace and
hope and faith in Christ Jesus.
Let the Lord’s work go forward. Let the medical missionary and
the educational work go forward. I am sure that this is our great
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lack—earnest, devoted, intelligent, capable workers. In every large
city there should be a representation of true medical missionary
work. Let many now ask: “Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?”
Acts 9:6
. It is the Lord’s purpose that His method of healing without
drugs shall be brought into prominence in every large city through
our medical institutions. God invests with holy dignity those who
go forth farther and still farther, in every place to which it is possible
to obtain entrance. Satan will make the work as difficult as possible,
but divine power will attend all truehearted workers. Guided by
our heavenly Father’s hand, let us go forward, improving every
opportunity to extend the work of God.
The Lord speaks to all medical missionaries, saying: Go, work
today in My vineyard to save souls. God hears the prayers of all
who seek Him in truth. He has the power that we all need. He fills
the heart with love, and joy, and peace, and holiness. Character is