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Counsels on Health
none may lack. The field is large, and there is a great work of reform
to be carried forward, not in one or two lines, but in every line. The
medical missionary work is a part of this work of reform, but it should
never become the means of separating the workers in the ministry from
their field of labor. The education of students in medical missionary
lines is not complete unless they are trained to work in connection
with the church and the ministry, and the usefulness of those who are
preparing for the ministry would be greatly increased if they would
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become intelligent on the great and important subject of health. The
influence of the Holy Spirit is needed that the work may be properly
balanced, and that it may move forward solidly in every line.
“Press Together”
The Lord’s work is one, and His people are to be one. He has
not directed that any one feature of the message should be carried on
independently or become all-absorbing. In all His labors He united the
medical missionary work with the ministry of the word. He sent out
the twelve apostles, and afterward the Seventy, to preach the gospel to
the people, and He gave them power also to heal the sick and to cast
out devils in His name. Thus should the Lord’s messengers enter His
work today. Today the message comes to us: “As My Father hath sent
Me, even so send I you. And when He had said this, He breathed on
them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.”
John 20:21,
22
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Satan will invent every possible scheme to separate those whom
God is seeking to make one. But we must not be misled by his devices.
If the medical missionary work is carried on as a part of the gospel,
worldlings will see the good that is being done; they will be convicted
of its genuineness, and will give it their support.
We are nearing the end of the earth’s history, and God calls upon
all to lift the standard bearing the inscription, “Here are they that
keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” He calls
upon His people to work in perfect harmony. He calls upon those
engaged in our medical work to unite with the ministry; He calls upon
the ministry to co-operate with the medical missionary workers; and
He calls upon the church to take up their appointed duty, holding up
the standard of true reform in their own territory, leaving the trained
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