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Evangelism
The work for the poorer classes has no limit. It can never be got
through with, and it must be treated as a part of the great whole. To
give our first attention to this work, while there are vast portions of
the Lord’s vineyard open to culture and yet untouched, is to begin in
the wrong place. As the right arm is to the body, so is the medical
missionary work to the third angel’s message. But the right arm is
not to become the whole body. The work of seeking the outcasts is
important, but it is not to become the great burden of our mission.—
Medical Ministry, 311, 312
(1899).
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A Proportionate Work—The medical missionary work must not
become disproportionate. It must be a work that is in order with the
rest of the work.—
Letter 38, 1899
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Health of Workers—Those who put their whole souls into the
medical missionary work, who labor untiringly, in peril, in privation, in
watchings oft, in weariness, and painfulness, are in danger of forgetting
that they must be faithful guardians of their own mental and physical
powers. They are not to allow themselves to be overtaxed. But they are
filled with zeal and earnestness, and they sometimes move unadvisedly,
putting themselves under too heavy a strain. Unless such workers make
a change, the result will be that sickness will come upon them, and
they will break down.
While God’s workers are to be filled with a noble enthusiasm, and
with a determination to follow the example of the divine worker, the
great Medical Missionary, they are not to crowd too many things into
the day’s work. If they do, they will soon have to leave the work
entirely broken down because they have tried to carry too heavy a load.
My brother, it is right for you to make the best use of the advantages
given you of God in earnest effort for the relief of suffering and for
the saving of souls. But do not sacrifice your health.
We have a calling as much higher than common, selfish interests
as the heavens are higher than the earth. But this thought should not
lead the willing, hard-working servants of God to carry all the burdens
they can possibly bear, without periods of rest.
How grand it would be if among all who were engaged in carrying
out God’s wonderful plan for the salvation of souls, there were no
idlers! How much more would be accomplished if everyone would
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say, “God holds me accountable to be wide awake, and to let my efforts