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Medical Ministry
to characterize genuine medical missionaries. They are to be men
who understand and know God and the power of His grace.
Stripped of All Selfishness
Whatever may be our ingathering or increase, the conference is
to be kept free from every thread of selfishness. So also should the
medical missionary work be stripped of all selfishness, and carried
forward after the order of God. The different lines of work are to
sustain one another.—
Letter 102, 1900
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Not by Proxy
Holy and devout persons, both men and women, are wanted now
to go forth as medical missionaries. Let them cultivate their physical
and mental powers and their piety to the uttermost. Every effort
should be made to send forth intelligent workers. The same grace
that came from Jesus Christ to Paul and Apollos, which caused them
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to be distinguished for their spiritual excellences, can be received
now, and will bring into working order many devoted missionaries.
Let not a large number fold their hands, saying, “Oh, yes, let
such and such ones go into untried fields,” while they themselves
put forth no interested, devoted, self-denying labor, and expect the
work the Lord has committed to them to be done by proxy. There
are those who, if they will deny self and lift the cross, will find
that God will communicate with them as verily as He did with Paul
and Barnabas. These are representatives of what very many should
be. “The scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be
ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.”—
Special Testimonies Relating to Medical Missionary Work, page 8
(1893)
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The Distinguishing Sign
True sympathy between man and his fellowman is to be the sign
distinguishing those who love and fear God from those who are
unmindful of His law. How great the sympathy that Christ expressed
in coming to this world to give His life a sacrifice for a dying world!