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The Ministry of Health and Healing
It was the outcast, the publican and sinner, the despised of the
nations, that Christ called and drew to Himself by His lovingkind-
ness. The one class that He would never countenance was those who
stood apart in their selfesteem and looked down on others.
“Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come
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in,” Christ urges us, “that My house may be filled.” In obedience
to this word we must go to the “heathen” who are near us and to
those who are afar off. The “publicans and harlots” must hear the
Savior’s invitation. Through the kindness and longsuffering of His
messengers, the invitation becomes a compelling power to uplift
those who are sunken in the lowest depths of sin.
Christian motives demand that we work with a steady purpose,
an undying interest, an ever-increasing earnestness for the souls
whom Satan is seeking to destroy. Nothing is to chill our earnest,
yearning energy for the salvation of the lost.
Mark how all through the Word of God there is manifest the spirit
of urgency, of imploring men and women to come to Christ. To draw
people to the Savior we must seize every opportunity, in private and
in public, presenting every argument, urging every motive of infinite
weight. With all our power we must urge them to look to Jesus and
to accept His life of self-denial and sacrifice. We must show that we
expect them to give joy to the heart of Christ by using every one of
His gifts in honoring His name.
Saved by Hope
“We are saved by hope.”
Romans 8:24
, KJV. The fallen must be
led to feel that it is not too late for them to repent. Christ honored
sinners with His confidence and thus placed them on their honor.
Even those who had fallen the lowest He treated with respect. It was
a continual pain to Christ to be brought into contact with enmity,
depravity, and impurity, but never did He utter one word to show
that His sensibilities were shocked or His refined tastes offended.
Whatever the evil habits, the strong prejudices, or the overbearing
passions of human beings, He met them all with pitying tenderness.
As we partake of His Spirit, we shall regard every person as a
brother or sister, with similar temptations and trials, often falling
and struggling to rise again, battling with discouragements and