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Teaching and Healing
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Lord Jesus goes before them, and among the wealthy and the poor
they find favor and help.
Those who have been trained for medical missionary work in
foreign countries should be encouraged to go without delay and
begin work among the people, learning the language as they work.
Very soon they will be able to teach the simple truths of God’s Word.
Throughout the world, messengers of mercy are needed. There
is a call for Christian families to go into communities that are in
darkness and error, to go to foreign fields, to become acquainted
with the needs of the people, and to work for the cause of the Master.
If such families would settle in the dark places of the earth, and let
the light of Christ’s life shine out through them, what a noble work
might be accomplished.
This work requires self-sacrifice. While many are waiting to
have every obstacle removed, the work they might do is left undone,
and multitudes are dying without hope and without God. Some
people, for the sake of commercial advantage or to acquire scientific
knowledge, will venture into unsettled regions and cheerfully endure
sacrifice and hardship, but how few for the sake of others are willing
to move their families into regions that are in need of the gospel.
To reach the people, wherever they are, and whatever their posi-
tion or condition, and to help them in every way possible—this is
true ministry. By such effort you may win hearts and open a door of
access to perishing souls.
In all your work remember that you are bound up with Christ, a
part of the great plan of redemption. The love of Christ, in a healing,
life-giving current, is to flow through your life. As you seek to draw
others within the circle of His love, let the purity of your language,
the unselfishness of your service, the joyfulness of your demeanor
bear witness to the power of His grace. Present so pure and righteous
a representation of Him that the world shall see Him in His beauty.
It is of little use to try to reform others by attacking what we may
regard as wrong habits. Such effort often results in more harm than
good. In Christ’s conversation with the Samaritan woman, instead
of disparaging Jacob’s well, He presented something better. “‘If you
knew the gift of God,’” He said, “‘and who it is who says to you,
“Give Me a drink,” you would have asked Him, and He would have
given you living water.’”
John 4:10
. He turned the conversation to