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should make every plan with reference to the needs of God’s great
missionary field.
It is not the Lord’s will for His people to erect mammoth sanitari-
ums anywhere. Many sanitariums are to be established. They are not
to be large, but sufficiently complete to do a good and successful work.
Cautions have been given me in reference to the work of training
nurses and medical missionary evangelists. We are not to centralize
this work in any one place. In every sanitarium established, young
men and young women should be trained to be medical missionaries.
The Lord will open the way before them as they go forth to work for
Him.
The evidences before us of the fulfillment of prophecy declare that
the end of all things is at hand. Much important work is to be done
out of and away from the places where in the past our work has been
largely centered.
When we bring a stream of water into a garden to irrigate it, we do
not provide for the watering of one place only, leaving the other parts
dry and barren, to cry, “Give us water.” And yet this represents the
way in which the work has been carried forward in a few places, to the
neglect of the great field. Shall the desolate places remain desolate?
No. Let the stream flow through every place, carrying with it gladness
and fertility.
Lowliness and Unselfishness
Never are we to rely upon worldly recognition and rank. Never
are we, in the establishment of institutions, to try to compete with
worldly institutions in size or splendor. We shall gain the victory,
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not by erecting massive buildings, in rivalry with our enemies, but
by cherishing a Christlike spirit—a spirit of meekness and lowliness.
Better far the cross and disappointed hopes, with eternal life at last,
than to live with princes and forfeit heaven.
The Saviour of mankind was born of humble parentage, in a sin-
cursed, wicked world. He was brought up in obscurity at Nazareth,
a small town in Galilee. He began His work in poverty and without
worldly rank. Thus God introduced the gospel, in a way altogether
different from the way in which many in our day deem it wise to
proclaim the same gospel.