In All The World
[
Testimonies for the Church 7:51-60
(1902).]
God has qualified His people to enlighten the world. He has
entrusted them with faculties by which they are to extend His work
until it shall encircle the globe. In all parts of the earth they are to
establish sanitariums, schools, publishing houses, and kindred facilities
for the accomplishment of His work.
The closing message of the gospel is to be carried to “every nation,
and kindred, and tongue, and people.”
Revelation 14:6
. In foreign
countries many enterprises for the advancement of this message must
yet be begun and carried forward. The opening of hygienic restaurants
and treatment rooms, and the establishment of sanitariums for the
care of the sick and the suffering, is just as necessary in Europe as in
America. In many lands medical missions are to be established to act
as God’s helping hand in ministering to the afflicted.
Christ co-operates with those who engage in medical missionary
work. Men and women who unselfishly do what they can to establish
sanitariums and treatment rooms in many lands will be richly rewarded.
Those who visit these institutions will be benefited physically, men-
tally, and spiritually—the weary will be refreshed, the sick restored
to health, the sin-burdened relieved. In far-off countries, from those
whose hearts are by these agencies turned from the service of sin unto
righteousness, will be heard thanksgiving and the voice of melody. By
their songs of grateful praise a testimony will be borne that will win
others to allegiance and to fellowship with Christ.
The conversion of souls to God is the greatest, the noblest work in
which human beings can have a part. In this work are revealed God’s
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power, His holiness, His forbearance, and His unbounded love. Every
true conversion glorifies Him and causes the angels to break forth into
singing.
We are nearing the end of this earth’s history, and the different lines
of God’s work are to be carried forward with much more self-sacrifice
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