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A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education
you would approach the people acceptably, humble your hearts before
God and learn His ways.
With Sympathy and Tenderness
We shall gain much instruction for our work from a study of
Christ’s methods of labor and His manner of meeting the people. In
the gospel story we have the record of how He worked for all classes,
and of how as He labored in cities and towns, thousands were drawn to
His side to hear His teaching. The words of the Master were clear and
distinct and were spoken in sympathy and tenderness. They carried
with them the assurance that here was truth. It was the simplicity and
earnestness with which Christ labored and spoke that drew so many to
Him.
The Great Teacher laid plans for His work. Study these plans. We
find Him traveling from place to place, followed by crowds of eager
listeners. When He could, He would lead them away from the crowded
cities to the quiet of the country. Here He would pray with them and
talk to them of eternal truths.
The sympathy that Christ ever expressed for the physical needs of
His hearers won many a response to the truths He sought to teach. Was
not the gospel message of deepest importance to that company of five
thousand people who for hours had followed Him and hung upon His
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words? Many had never before heard truths such as they listened to on
that occasion. Yet Christ’s desire to teach them spiritual truths did not
make Him indifferent to their physical needs.—
Medical Ministry, 299
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Divine Power Will Attend
Let many now ask, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” It is
the Lord’s purpose that His method of healing without drugs shall
be brought into prominence in every large city through our medical
institutions. God invests with holy dignity those who go forth in His
power to heal the sick. Let the light shine forth farther and still farther,
in every place to which it is possible to obtain entrance. Satan will
make the work as difficult as possible, but divine power will attend
all true-hearted workers. Guided by our heavenly Father’s hand, let