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A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education
In Time of Persecution
As religious aggression subverts the liberties of our nation, those
who would stand for freedom of conscience will be placed in unfa-
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vorable positions. For their own sake, they should, while they have
the opportunity, become intelligent in regard to disease, its causes,
prevention, and cure. All those who do this will find a field of labor
anywhere. There will be suffering ones, plenty of them, who will need
help, not only among those of our own faith, but largely among those
who know not the truth. The shortness of time demands an energy that
has not been aroused among those who claim to believe the present
truth.—
Counsels on Health, 506
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The Distinguishing Sign
True sympathy between man and his fellow men is to be the sign
distinguishing those who love and fear God from those who are un-
mindful of His law. How great the sympathy that Christ expressed in
coming to this world to give His life a sacrifice for a dying world! His
religion led to the doing of genuine medical missionary work. He was
a healing power. “I will have mercy, and not sacrifice,” He said. This
is the test that the great Author of truth used to distinguish between
true religion and false. God wants His medical missionaries to act with
the tenderness and compassion that Christ would show were He in our
world.—
Medical Ministry, 251
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How slow men are to understand God’s preparation for the day of
His power. He works today to reach hearts in the same way that He
worked when Christ was upon this earth. In reading the Word of God,
we see that Christ brought medical missionary work into His ministry.
Cannot our eyes be opened to discern Christ’s methods? Cannot we
understand the commission He gave to His disciples and to us?
The world must have an antidote for sin. As the medical mis-
sionary works intelligently to relieve suffering and save life, hearts
are softened. Those who are helped are filled with gratitude. As
the medical missionary works upon the body, God works upon the
heart.—
Manuscript 58, 1901
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