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example has shown us that it is right to relieve suffering on the Sabbath.
But unnecessary work, such as ordinary treatments and operations that
can be postponed, should be deferred. Let the patients understand
that physicians and helpers should have one day for rest. Let them
understand that the workers fear God and desire to keep holy the day
that He has set apart for His followers to observe as a sign between
Him and them.
The educators and those being educated in our medical institutions
should remember that to keep the Sabbath aright means much to them
and to the patrons. In keeping the Sabbath, which God declares shall
be kept holy, they give the sign of their order, showing plainly that
they are on the Lord’s side.
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Free From Worldly Entanglements
Now and ever we are to stand as a distinct and peculiar people, free
from all worldly policy, unembarrassed by confederating with those
who have not wisdom to discern God’s claims so plainly set forth
in His law. All our medical institutions are established as Seventh-
day Adventist institutions, to represent the various features of gospel
medical missionary work, and thus to prepare the way for the coming
of the Lord. We are to show that we are seeking to work in harmony
with Heaven. We are to bear witness to all nations, kindreds, and
tongues that we are a people who love and fear God, a people who
keep holy His memorial of creation, the sign between Him and His
obedient children that He sanctifies them. And we are plainly to show
our faith in the soon coming of our Lord in the clouds of heaven.
As a people we have been greatly humiliated by the course that
some of our brethren in responsible positions have taken in depart-
ing from the old landmarks. There are those who, in order to carry
out their plans, have by their words denied their faith. This shows
how little dependence can be placed on human wisdom and human
judgment. Now, as never before, we need to see the danger of being
led unguardedly away from loyalty to God’s commandments. We
need to realize that God has given us a decided message of warning
for the world, even as He gave Noah a message of warning for the
antediluvians. Let our people beware of belittling the importance of
the Sabbath, in order to link up with unbelievers. Let them beware of