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Section 18—Extent of the Work
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Opportunities for All
“And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord work-
ing with them, and confirming the word with signs following.”
The words spoken to the disciples are spoken to us also. None
need think that the day for working as the apostles worked is past.
Men and women can today work as Christ has given them example.
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To all will come opportunities to minister to sin-sick souls and to
those in need of physical healing. Physical healing is a science of
heavenly birth, bound up with the gospel commission.—
Manuscript
16, 1904.
Will Revive the Churches
Get the young men and women in the churches to work. Combine
medical missionary work with the proclamation of the third angel’s
message. Make regular, organized efforts to lift the church members
out of the dead level in which they have been for years. Send out into
the churches workers who will live the principles of health reform.
Let those be sent who can see the necessity of self-denial in appetite,
or they will be a snare to the church. See if the breath of life will not
then come into our churches.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:267
.
Be Practical Missionaries
In every place the sick may be found, and those who go forth as
workers for Christ should be true health reformers, prepared to give
those who are sick the simple treatments that will relieve them, and
then pray with them. Thus they will open the door for the entrance
of the truth. The doing of this work will be followed by good results.
Our Sabbath-keeping families should keep their minds filled with
helpful principles of health reform and other lines of truth, that they
may be a help to their neighbors. Be practical missionaries. Gather
up all the knowledge possible that will help to combat disease. This
may be done by those who are diligent students.
But few can take a course of training in our medical institutions.
But all can study our health literature and become intelligent on this
important subject.—
Manuscript 19, 1911.