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Medical Ministry
they come in contact with the patients, or go out into all the civilized
world and to the regions that lie in heathen darkness, the truth of
God on these subjects may be given to them. As these workers enter
upon their duties, the efficiency of experienced men and women
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is increased a hundredfold, and the work for this time is far more
rapidly accomplished.
Proper persons need to be selected and trained, persons who will
do honor to every branch of the work. The consecration of their
talents must be very real, and then God will bless their efforts. He
is the source of all wisdom and grace. In His strength defects and
ignorance may be overcome.
Every physician, every nurse, every helper, who has anything to
do in God’s service, must aim at perfection and under the discipline
of the greatest Teacher the world has ever known, his course must
ever tend upward toward this aim. All who are connected with the
medical missionary work must be learners. No one must stop to
think, I cannot do this. He must say instead, God requires me to
be perfect. What did Christ say in regard to this matter?—“Be ye
therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
Matthew 5:45
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No one who allows known defects to remain in his manners or
his character is excused. Those connected with medical missionary
work are connected with God’s service, and they must try to reach
His standard. He will give them wisdom and understanding. We
are to show a superiority in intellect, in understanding, in skill, and
knowledge, because we believe in God and in His power to work
upon human hearts.
Read the history of Daniel. The Lord would have His people
reach the highest round of the ladder, that they may glorify Him by
possessing the ability He is willing to bestow. He has a treasure-
house of knowledge from which we can all draw. Then let us realize
our defects and improve under the instruction of God. Then the
light and grace of God will be reflected to the world as the highest
education, which sanctifies the receiver.
The religion of Jesus Christ never degrades; it never makes men
and women coarse and rough. Incorrect speech, wrong habits, must
be overcome. God would have every man correct in speech, correct
in habits, possessing knowledge that will give him a standing place