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educated physician will find entrance in our cities where other men
cannot. Teach the message of health reform. This will have an influ-
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ence with the people.
The Lord will assuredly guide you if you will seek to do His will,
even though it should interfere with some of your desires and plans.
As you walk and work in the counsel of God, doors will be opened
before you of opportunities for uniting the work of the ministry and
that of a physician.
If in the city of Boston and other cities of the East, you and your
wife will unite in medical evangelistic work, your usefulness will
increase, and there will open before you clear views of duty. In these
cities the message of the first angel went with great power in 1842 and
1843, and now the time has come when the message of the third angel
is to be proclaimed extensively in the East. There is a grand work
before our Eastern sanitariums. The message is to go with power as
the work closes up.
Let your words be of a character to exalt the word of God. Live
and teach the principles of health reform. Emphasize your belief in
the great truths upon which Christian people generally will agree with
you. As you advocate the truth of God, you are in every respect to be
an example to the believers.
The importance of making our way in the great cities is still kept
before me. For many years the Lord has been urging upon us this
duty, and yet we see but comparatively little accomplished in our great
centers of population. If we do not take up this work in a determined
manner, Satan will multiply difficulties which will not be easy to
surmount. We are far behind in doing the work that should have
been done in these long-neglected cities. The work will now be more
difficult than it would have been a few years ago. But if we take up
the work in the name of the Lord, barriers will be broken down and
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decided victories will be ours.
In this work physicians and gospel ministers are needed. We must
press our petitions to the Lord and do our best, pressing forward with
all the energy possible to make an opening in the large cities. Had
we in the past worked after the Lord’s plans, many lights would be
shining brightly that are going out.
In connection with the presentation of spiritual truths, we should
also present what the word of God says upon the questions of health