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Counsels on Health
place to lively interest in the sufferings of others. The widow, the
orphan, the sick and the dying, will always need help. Here is an
opportunity to proclaim the gospel—to hold up Jesus, the hope and
consolation of all men. When the suffering body has been relieved, and
you have shown a lively interest in the afflicted, the heart is opened,
and you can pour in the heavenly balm. If you are looking to Jesus
and drawing from Him knowledge and strength and grace, you can
impart His consolation to others, because the Comforter is with you.
You will meet with much prejudice, a great deal of false zeal and
miscalled piety, but in both the home and foreign field you will find
more hearts that God has been preparing for the seed of truth than
you imagine, and they will hail with joy the divine message when it is
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presented to them.
But there must be no duplicity, no crookedness, in the life of the
worker. While error, even when held in sincerity, is dangerous to
anyone, insincerity in the truth is fatal.
Work With Enthusiasm and Ardor
We are not to be idle spectators in the stirring scenes that will
prepare the way of the Lord’s second appearing. We must catch the
enthusiasm and ardor of the Christian soldier. Everyone who is not
for Christ is against Him. “He that gathereth not with Me scattereth
abroad.”
Matthew 12:30
. Inactivity is registered in the books of heaven
as opposition to Christ’s work, because it produces the same kind of
fruit as positive hostility. God calls for active workers.
The more clearly our eyes behold the attractions of the future
world, the deeper will be our solicitude for the inhabitants of this
world. We cannot be self-centered. We are living in the time of special
conflict between the powers of light and those of darkness. Go forth;
let your light shine; diffuse its rays to all the world. Christ and the
heavenly messengers co-operating with human agencies, will bring
the unfinished parts of the work to a perfect whole. Not to fill our
place because we love our ease, because we would avoid care and
weariness, is not to shine; and how terrible the guilt, how fearful the
consequences!
There should be those who are preparing themselves to become
Christian missionary physicians and nurses. Doors will then be opened