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A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education
who taketh away the sin of the world, and who can save both soul and
body.
The Lord wants wise men and women, acting in the capacity of
nurses, to comfort and help the sick and suffering. Oh, that all who are
afflicted could be ministered to by Christlike physicians and nurses
who could help them to place their weary, pain-racked bodies in the
care of the great Healer, in faith looking to Him for restoration.
Every sincere Christian bows to Jesus as the true Physician of
souls. When He stands by the bedside of the afflicted, there will be
many not only converted, but healed. If through judicious ministration
the patient is led to give his soul to Christ and to bring his thoughts into
obedience to the will of God, a great victory is gained.—
The Review
and Herald, May 9, 1912
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Serve With Sanctified Understanding
To those who go out to do medical missionary work, I would say,
Serve the Lord Jesus Christ with sanctified understanding, in connec-
tion with the ministers of the gospel and the Great Teacher. He who
has given you your commission will give you skill and understand-
ing as you consecrate yourselves to His service, engaging diligently
in labor and study, doing your best to bring relief to the sick and
suffering.—
Counsels on Health, 539
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Nothing but earnest, wholehearted labor will avail in the saving
of souls. We are to make our everyday duties acts of devotion, con-
stantly increasing in usefulness because we see our work in the light
of eternity.—
Letter 43, 1902
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Medical Missions in Every City
Intemperance has filled our world, and medical missions should
be established in every city. By this I do not mean that expensive
institutions should be established, calling for a large outlay of means.
These missions are to be conducted in such a way that they will not be
a heavy drain on the cause; and their work is to prepare the way for the
establishment of present truth. Medical missionary work should have
its representatives in every place in connection with the establishment