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Medical Ministry
We are to be Christ’s representatives on the earth—pure, kind,
just, and merciful, full of compassion, showing unselfishness in word
and deed. Avarice and covetousness are vices that God abominates.
They are the offspring of selfishness and sin, and they spoil every
work with which they are allowed to mingle. Roughness and coarse-
ness of character are imperfections which the Scriptures decidedly
condemn as dishonoring to God.
“Let your conversation”—your disposition and habits—“be with-
out covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for
He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” “Therefore
as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge,
and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in
this grace also”—the grace of Christian liberality. “To do good and
to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased.”
“Be Ye Clean”
The word of the Lord to those connected with His institutions is,
“Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.” In all our institutions
let self-seeking give place to unselfish love and labor. Then the
golden oil will be emptied from the two olive branches into the
golden pipes, which will empty themselves into the vessels prepared
to receive it. Then the lives of Christ’s workers will indeed be an
exposition of the sacred truths of His word.
The fear of God, the sense of His goodness, His holiness, will
circulate through every institution. An atmosphere of love and peace
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will pervade every department. Every word spoken, every work
performed, will have an influence that corresponds to the influence
of heaven. Christ will abide in humanity, and humanity will abide in
Christ. In all the work will appear not the character of finite men,
but the character of the infinite God. The divine influence imparted
by holy angels will impress the minds brought in contact with the
workers, and from these workers a fragrant influence will go forth to
all who choose to inhale it. The goodly fabric of character wrought
through divine power will receive light and glory from heaven, and
will stand out before the world as a witness, pointing to the throne
of the living God.