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A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education
Many will be called into the field to labor from house to house,
giving Bible readings, and praying with those who are interested.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:172
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Laboring as God’s Helping Hand
Our work has been marked out for us by our heavenly Father. We
are to take our Bibles and go forth to warn the world. We are to be
God’s helping hand in saving souls. We are to be channels through
which His love is day by day to flow to the perishing. The realization
of the great work in which he has the privilege of taking part ennobles
and sanctifies the true worker. He is filled with the faith that works by
love and purifies the soul. Nothing is drudgery to the one who submits
to the will of God. “Doing it unto the Lord” is the thought that throws
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a charm over the work that God gives him to do.—
Letter 43, 1902
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Self-supporting Workers
The Macedonian cry is coming from every quarter. Shall men go
to the “regular lines” to see whether they will be permitted to labor, or
shall they go out and work as best they can, depending on their own
abilities and on the help of the Lord, beginning in a humble way and
creating an interest in the truth in places in which nothing has been
done to give the warning message?
The Lord has encouraged those who have started out on their own
responsibility to work for Him, their hearts filled with love for souls
ready to perish. A true missionary spirit will be imparted to those who
seek earnestly to know God and Jesus Christ, whom He hath sent. The
Lord lives and reigns. Young men, go forth into the places to which
you are directed by the Spirit of the Lord. Work with your hands, that
you may be self-supporting, and as you have opportunity proclaim the
message of warning.—
Medical Ministry, 321-322
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Where are the men who will work and study and agonize in prayer
as did Christ? We are not to confine our efforts to a few places. “When
they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another.” Let Christ’s plan
be followed. He was ever watching for opportunities to engage in
personal labor, ever ready to interest and draw men to a study of the
Scriptures. He labored patiently for men who had not an intelligent