Words of Caution to a Leading Physician
[
Testimonies for the Church 8:158-162
(1898).]
Melbourne, Australia,
February 3, 1898.
My dear Brother,
Special light has been given me that you are in danger of losing
sight of the work for this time. You are erecting barriers to separate
your work and those you are educating from the church. This must
not be. Those who are receiving instruction in medical missionary
lines should be led to realize that their education is to fit them to
do better work in connection with the ministers of God. You are to
remember, my brother, that the Lord has a people upon the earth whom
He respects. But your words, and the way in which they are often
spoken, create unbelief in the position that we occupy as a people.
You are in danger of failing to hold fast the faith once delivered to the
saints, of making shipwreck of your faith. The words were spoken:
“A very small leak will sink a ship. One defective link makes a chain
worthless.”
Educate Medical Missionaries
Remember, my brother, that medical missionary work is not to
take men from the ministry, but is to place men in the field, better
qualified to minister because of their knowledge of medical missionary
work. Young men should receive an education in medical missionary
lines and should then go forth to connect with the ministers. They
should not be influenced to give themselves exclusively to the work
of rescuing the fallen and degraded. That work is found everywhere,
and is to be combined with the work of preparing a people to make
Bible truth their defense against the sophistries of worldlings and of
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the fallen church. The third angel is to go forth with great power. Let
none ignore this work or treat it as of little importance. The truth is to
be proclaimed to the world, that men and women may see the light.
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