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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
Nurses As Evangelists
Christ, the great Medical Missionary, is our example. Of Him it is
written that He “went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner
of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.”
Matthew
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. He healed the sick and preached the gospel. In His service,
healing and teaching were linked closely together. Today they are
not to be separated.
The nurses who are trained in our institutions are to be fitted up
to go out as medical missionary evangelists, uniting the ministry of
the word with that of physical healing.
We must let our light shine amid the moral darkness. Many who
are now in darkness, as they see a reflection of the Light of the world,
will realize that they have a hope of salvation. Your light may be
small, but remember that it is what God has given you, and that He
holds you responsible to let it shine forth. Someone may light his
taper from yours, and his light may be the means of leading others
out from the darkness.
All around us are doors open for service. We should become
acquainted with our neighbors and seek to draw them to Christ. As
we do this, He will approve and cooperate with us.
Often the inhabitants of a city where Christ labored wished Him
to stay with them and continue to work among them. But He would
tell them that He must go to cities that had not heard the truths that
He had to present. After He had given the truth to those in one
place He left them to build upon what He had given them, while
He went to another place. His methods of labor are to be followed
today by those to whom He has left His work. We are to go from
place to place, carrying the message. As soon as the truth has been
proclaimed in one place, we are to go to warn others.
There should be companies organized and educated most thor-
oughly to work as nurses, as evangelists, as ministers, as canvassers,
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as gospel students, to perfect a character after the divine similitude.
To prepare to receive the higher education in the school above is
now to be our purpose.
From the instruction that the Lord has given me from time to
time, I know that there should be workers who make medical evan-