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Section 2—The Divine Plan in the Medical Missionary Work
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tory the men at the head of the work are to allow no confusion of
sentiment to prevail in regard to what should really be expected of
medical missionaries sent of God. There should be a more clear,
definite understanding of what medical missionary work compre-
hends. It must be defined as standing on an altogether higher plane,
and as accomplishing results of a much more sanctified order, be-
fore God can endorse it as genuine. Those who desire to honor
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God will not mingle worldly policy plans with His plans in attempt-
ing to accomplish the results that this work is ordained of God to
accomplish....
Our work is clearly defined. As the Father sent His only-begotten
Son into our world, even so Christ sends us, His disciples, as His
medical missionary workers. In fulfilling this high and holy mission,
we are to do the will of God. No one man’s mind or judgment is
to be our criterion of what constitutes genuine medical missionary
work....
True medical missionary work is of heavenly origin. It was not
originated by any person who lives. But in connection with this
work we see so much which dishonors God that I am instructed to
say, The medical missionary work is of divine origin, and has a most
glorious mission to fulfill. In all its bearings it is to be in conformity
with Christ’s work. Those who are workers together with God will
just as surely represent the character of Christ as Christ represented
the character of His Father while in this world.
Cleansed from Earthliness
I am instructed to say that God will have the medical missionary
work cleansed from the tarnish of earthliness, and elevated to stand
in its true position before the world. When schemes that imperil
souls are brought into connection with this work, its influence is
destroyed. This is why there have arisen in the carrying forward of
medical missionary work many perplexities that demand our careful
consideration....
Nothing will help us more at this stage of our work than to un-
derstand and to fulfill the mission of the greatest Medical Missionary
that ever trod the earth; nothing will help us more than to realize how
sacred is this kind of work and how perfectly it corresponds with the