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for us the privations of poverty. Shall we refuse to deny ourselves
for His sake? Shall we refuse to become medical missionary workers
unless we can follow the customs of the world, making a display such
as worldlings make? ...
My brother, my sister, take up your work right where you are. Do
your best, ever looking to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. In
no other way can we do the work of God and magnify His truth than by
following in the footsteps of Him who gave up His high command to
come to our world, that through His humiliation and suffering, human
beings might become partakers of the divine nature. For our sake He
became poor, that through His poverty we might come into possession
of the eternal riches....
Intelligent, self-denying, self-sacrificing men are now needed—
men who realize the solemnity and importance of God’s work, and
who as Christian philanthropists will fulfill the commission of Christ.
The medical missionary work given us to do means something to every
one of us. It is a work of soul saving; it is the proclamation of the
gospel message.
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