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for the assistance of the Holy Spirit, and let us avail ourselves of all
the help and light that God has given.
Promising Youth to Be Selected
In almost every church there are young men and women who might
receive education either as nurses or physicians. They will never have
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a more favorable opportunity than now. I would urge that this subject
be considered prayerfully, that special effort be made to select those
youth who give promise of usefulness and moral strength. Let these
receive an education ... to go out as missionaries wherever the Lord
may call them to labor. It should ever be kept before them that their
work is not only to relieve physical suffering, but to minister to souls
that are ready to perish. It is important that everyone who is to act as
a medical missionary be skilled in ministering to the soul as well as
to the body. He is to be an imitator of Christ, presenting to the sick
and suffering the preciousness of pure and undefiled religion. While
doing all in his power to relieve physical distress and to preserve this
mortal life, he should point to the mercy and the love of Jesus, the
Great Physician, who came that “whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
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Workers are needed now. As a people, we are not doing one fiftieth
of what we might do as active missionaries. If we were only vitalized
by the Holy Spirit, there would be a hundred missionaries where there
is now one. But where are the missionaries? Has not the truth for this
time power to stir the souls of those who claim to believe it? When
there is a call to labor, why should there be so many voices to say, “I
pray thee, have me excused”? In this country the standard of truth is to
be established and exalted. There is great need of workers, and there
are many ways in which they can labor. There is work for those in the
higher as well as in the more humble positions.... Individually all need
a heart work. A good work cannot be done by the human agent alone.
For the full development and efficiency of the intellectual as well as
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the spiritual powers, there is, there must be, a vital connection with
God, a communion with the highest source of activity. Then with the
soul all aglow with zeal for the Master, we can be a blessing to others.
Jesus said, “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well