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Call for Gospel Medical Missionaries
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“They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” This
world is a vast lazar house; but Christ came to heal the sick, to pro-
claim deliverance to the captives of Satan. He was in Himself health
and strength. He imparted His life to the sick, the afflicted, those
possessed of demons. He knew that many of those who petitioned
Him for help had brought disease upon themselves, yet He did not
refuse to heal them. And when virtue from Christ entered into these
poor souls, they were convicted of sin, and many were healed of
their spiritual disease as well as of their physical maladies.
To many of the afflicted ones who received healing, Christ said,
“Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”
John 5:14
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He taught that disease is the result of violating God’s laws, both
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natural and spiritual. The great misery in the world would not exist
had men from the beginning lived in harmony with the Creator’s
plan. There are conditions to be observed by all who would preserve
health. All should learn what these conditions are. The Lord is
not pleased with ignorance in regard to His laws, either natural or
spiritual. We are to be workers together with God for the restoration
of health to the body as well as to the soul.
And we should teach others how to preserve and to recover
health. For the sick we should use the remedies which God has
provided in nature, and we should point them to Him who alone
can restore. It is our work to present the sick and suffering to Christ
in the arms of our faith. We should teach them to believe in the
Great Healer. We should lay hold on His promise and pray for
the manifestation of His power. The very essence of the gospel is
restoration, and the Saviour would have us bid the sick, the hopeless,
and the afflicted take hold upon His strength.
Never has the world’s need for teaching and healing been greater
than it is today. The world is full of those who need to be ministered
unto—the weak, the helpless, the ignorant, the degraded. The con-
tinual transgression of man for nearly six thousand years has brought
sickness, pain, and death as its fruit. Multitudes are perishing for
lack of knowledge.
As God’s ministers behold the awful results of long-continued
sin, their hearts are touched with the world’s woe, and they are
endeavoring to labor as the Master Workman and His disciples
labored. Connected with the divine Healer, they are going forth in
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