Co-operation Between Medical and Evangelistic Work
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No Other Work So Successful
In new fields no work is so successful as medical missionary work.
If our ministers would work earnestly to obtain an education in medical
missionary lines, they would be far better fitted to do the work Christ
did as a medical missionary. By diligent study and practice, they
can become so well acquainted with the principles of health reform,
that wherever they go they will be a great blessing to the people they
meet.—
Medical Ministry, 239
.
The Minister, the Physician, and the Bible Worker
The gospel minister should preach the health principles, for these
have been given of God as among the means needed to prepare a
people perfect in character. Therefore, health principles have been
given to us that as a people we might be prepared in both mind and
body to receive the fullness of God’s blessing. The medical missionary
work has its place and part in this closing gospel work.
The Christian physician has a high calling. With his fuller knowl-
edge of the human system and its laws, he is in a position to preach
the gospel of salvation with much efficiency and power.
The first and chief object of the gospel and all that pertains to it
is to seek and to save that which is lost. The ministry of the gospel,
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whether by the minister or the physician, is to reach out to man a
helping hand wherever it is needed. It is to minister to the sick and
suffering physically as well as to the sin-sick soul.
Here the gospel minister and the Christian physician unite, and the
Bible worker in her visit from house to house as well.—
The Review
and Herald, October 29, 1914
.
Ministers, do not confine your work to merely giving Bible instruc-
tion. Do practical work. Seek to restore the sick to health. This is true
ministry. Remember that the restoration of the body prepares the way
for the restoration of the soul.—
Medical Ministry, 240
.
There Must Be No Separation
No line is to be drawn between the genuine medical missionary
work and the gospel ministry. These two must blend. They are not
to stand apart as separate lines of work. They are to be joined in an