Call to Service
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It Opens Doors
The right hand is used to open doors through which the body may
find entrance. This is the part the medical missionary work is to act. It
is to largely prepare the way for the reception of the truth for this time.
A body without hands is useless. In giving honor to the body, honor
must also be given to the helping hands, which are agencies of such
importance that without them the body can do nothing. Therefore the
body which treats indifferently the right hand, refusing its aid, is able
to accomplish nothing.—
Medical Ministry, 238
.
In every place the sick may be found, and those who go forth as
workers for Christ should be true health reformers, prepared to give
those who are sick the simple treatments that will relieve them, and
then pray with them. Thus they will open the door for the entrance of
the truth. The doing of this work will be followed by good results.—
Medical Ministry, 320
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The Work for Today
Why has it not been understood from the Word of God that the
work being done in medical missionary lines is a fulfillment of the
scripture, “Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and
bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind....
The servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet
there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house
may be filled.”
This is a work that the churches in every locality, north and south
and east and west, should do. The churches have been given the
opportunity of answering this work. Why have they not done it?
Someone must fulfill the commission.—
The Review and Herald, May
25, 1897
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The Lord gave me great light on health reform. In connection with
my husband, I was to be a medical missionary worker. I was to set
an example to the church by taking the sick to my home and caring
for them. This I have done, giving the women and children vigorous
treatment.
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