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The Ministry of Health and Healing
That they may set their hope in God.”
“The blessing of the Lord makes one rich,
And He adds no sorrow with it.”
Proverbs 22:17-21; Psalm
78:5, 4, 6, 7; Proverbs 10:22.
Christ’s Teaching
So also Christ presented the principles of truth in the gospel. In
His teaching we may drink of the pure streams that flow from the
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throne of God. Christ could have imparted knowledge that would
have surpassed any previous disclosures and put in the background
every other discovery. He could have unlocked mystery after mys-
tery, and could have concentrated around these wonderful revelations
the active, earnest thought of successive generations till the close of
time. But He would not spare a moment from teaching the science
of salvation. His time, His faculties, and His life were appreciated
and used only as a means of working for the salvation of souls. He
had come to seek and to save that which was lost, and He would not
be turned from His purpose. He allowed nothing to divert Him.
Christ imparted only knowledge that could be used. His instruc-
tion of the people was confined to the needs of their own condition
in practical life. He did not gratify the curiosity that led them to
come to Him with prying questions. He made all such questionings
an occasion for solemn, earnest, vital appeals. To those who were so
eager to pick fruit from the tree of knowledge, He offered the fruit
of the tree of life. They found every avenue closed except the way
that leads to God. Every fountain was sealed except the fountain of
eternal life.
Our Savior did not encourage any to attend the rabbinical schools
of His day, for the reason that their minds would be corrupted with
the continually repeated, “They say ...” or, “It has been said . ...”
Why, then, should we accept the unstable words of men and women
as exalted wisdom, when a greater, a certain, wisdom is at our
command?
That which I have seen of eternal things, and that which I have
seen of the weakness of humanity, has deeply impressed my mind
and influenced my lifework. I see nothing wherein mortals should be