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Teaching and Healing
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for the Master. Some cannot do so much as others, but everyone
should do his utmost to roll back the tide of disease and distress
that is sweeping over our world. Many would be willing to work
if they were taught how to begin. They need to be instructed and
encouraged.
Every church should be a training school for Christian workers.
Its members should be taught how to give Bible readings, how to
conduct and teach Sabbath-school classes, how best to help the poor
and to care for the sick, how to work for the unconverted. There
should be schools of health, cooking schools, and classes in various
lines of Christian help work. There should not only be teaching, but
actual work under experienced instructors. Let the teachers lead the
way in working among the people, and others, uniting with them,
will learn from their example. One example is worth more than
many precepts.
Let all cultivate their physical and mental powers to the utmost
of their ability, that they may work for God where His providence
shall call them. The same grace that came from Christ to Paul
and Apollos, that distinguished them for spiritual excellencies, will
today be imparted to devoted Christian missionaries. God desires His
children to have intelligence and knowledge, that with unmistakable
clearness and power His glory may be revealed in our world.
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Educated workers who are consecrated to God can do service in
a greater variety of ways and can accomplish more extensive work
than can those who are uneducated. Their discipline of mind places
them on vantage ground. But those who have neither great talents
nor extensive education may minister acceptably to others. God will
use men who are willing to be used. It is not the most brilliant or
the most talented persons whose work produces the greatest and
most lasting results. Men and women are needed who have heard
a message from heaven. The most effective workers are those who
respond to the invitation, “Take My yoke upon you, and learn of
Me.”
Matthew 11:29
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It is heart missionaries that are needed. He whose heart God
touches is filled with a great longing for those who have never
known His love. Their condition impresses him with a sense of
personal woe. Taking his life in his hand, he goes forth, a heaven-