Medical Missionary Work in Cities
Medical missionary evangelistic work should be carried forward
in a most prudent and thorough manner. The solemn, sacred work of
saving souls is to advance in a way that is modest, and yet elevated.
Where are the working forces? Men and women who are thoroughly
converted, men and women of discernment and keen foresight, should
act as directors. Good judgment must be exercised in employing
persons to do this special work,—persons who love God and who walk
before Him in all humility, persons who will be effective agencies in
God’s hand for the accomplishment of the object He has in view,—the
uplifting and saving of human beings.
Medical missionary evangelists will be able to do excellent pioneer
work. The work of the minister should blend fully with that of the
medical missionary evangelist. The Christian physician should regard
his work as exalted as that of the ministry. He bears a double responsi-
bility; for in him are combined the qualifications of both physician and
gospel minister. His is a grand, a sacred, and a very necessary work.
The physician and the minister should realize that they are engaged
in the same work. They should labor in perfect harmony. They should
counsel together. By their unity they will bear witness that God has
sent His only begotten Son into the world to save all who will believe
in Him as their personal Saviour.
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Physicians whose professional abilities are above those of the
ordinary doctor, should engage in the service of God in the large cities.
They should seek to reach the higher classes.... Medical missionaries
who labor in evangelistic lines are doing a work of as high an order
as are their ministerial fellow-laborers. The efforts put forth by these
workers are not to be limited to the poorer classes. The higher classes
have been strangely neglected. In the higher walks of life will be found
many who will respond to the truth, because it is consistent, because it
bears the stamp of the high character of the gospel. Not a few of the
men of ability thus won to the cause will enter energetically into the
Lord’s work.
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