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A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education
God calls, “Son, go work today in my vineyard.” God will make
the young men of today heaven’s chosen repositories, to present before
the people truth in contrast with error and superstition, if they will give
themselves to Him. May God roll the burden on strong young men,
who have His Word abiding in them, and who will give the truth to
others.—
Manuscript 134, 1898
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Make Plain the Effects of Indulgence
It must be kept before the people that the right balance of the mental
and moral powers depends in a great degree on the right conditions
of the physical system. All narcotics and unnatural stimulants that
enfeeble and degrade the physical nature tend to lower the tone of the
intellect and morals. Intemperance lies at the foundation of the moral
depravity of the world. By the indulgence of perverted appetite, man
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loses his power to resist temptation.
Temperance reformers have a work to do in educating the people
in these lines. Teach them that health, character, and even life, are en-
dangered by the use of stimulants, which excite the exhausted energies
to unnatural, spasmodic action.—
The Ministry of Healing, 335
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Many May Be Saved From Degradation
I have been shown that the medical missionary work will discover,
in the very depths of degradation, men who once possessed fine minds,
richest qualifications, who will be rescued by proper labor from their
fallen condition. It is the truth as it is in Jesus that is to be brought
before human minds after they have been sympathetically cared for
and their physical necessities met. The Holy Spirit is working and
co-operating with the human agencies that are laboring for such souls,
and some will appreciate the foundation upon a rock for their religious
faith.
There is to be no startling communication of strange doctrine to
these subjects whom God loves and pities; but as they are helped
physically by the medical missionary workers, the Holy Spirit co-
operates with the minister of human agencies, to arouse the moral
powers. The mental powers are awakened into activity, and these poor