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Section 2—The Divine Plan in the Medical Missionary Work
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Types of God’s Saving Power
In our medical institutions the people are to be brought in contact
with the special truths for this time. God says there shall be institu-
tions established under the supervision of men who have been healed
through a belief in God’s word, and who have overcome their defects
of character. In the world all kinds of provision have been made for
the relief of suffering humanity, but the truth in its simplicity is to
be brought to these suffering ones through the agency of men and
women who are loyal to the commandments of God. Sanitariums
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are to be established all through our world, and managed by a people
who are in harmony with God’s laws, a people who will cooperate
with God in advocating the truth that determines the case of every
soul for whom Christ died....
All the light of the past, which shines unto the present and
reaches forth into the future, as revealed in the word of God, is
for every soul who comes to our health institutions. The Lord de-
signs that the sanitariums established among Seventh-day Adventists
shall be symbols of what can be done for the world, types of the
saving power of the truths of the gospel. They are to be agencies in
the fulfillment of God’s great purposes for the human race.
To God’s people and His institutions in this generation as well
as to ancient Israel belong the words written by Moses through the
Spirit of Inspiration:
“Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy
God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth.”
“Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as
the Lord my God commanded me.... Keep therefore and do them;
for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there
so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in
all things that we call upon Him for? And what nation is there so
great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law,
which I set before you this day?”