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tically carried out. I have been made so sorry to see that our people
have not taken hold of this work as they should....
All heaven is interested in the work of relieving suffering humanity.
Satan is exerting all his powers to obtain control over the souls and
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bodies of men. He is trying to bind them to the wheels of his chariot.
My heart is made sad as I look at our churches, which ought to be
connected in heart and soul and practice with the medical missionary
work.—
The General Conference Bulletin, April 12, 1901
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Mrs. White Retained Broad Sympathies Throughout Life
Drawn Out to President McKinley’s Widow—I am not able to
sleep past two o’clock A.M. I am awakened often at one o’clock at
night with my heart drawn out in tender sympathy for the bereaved
wife of President McKinley. One is taken and the other left. The strong
one upon whose large affections she could ever lean, is not. While he
was in health, fulfilling the duties of his office, an apparently friendly
hand was extended, which President McKinley was ready to grasp.
That Judas hand held a pistol and shot the President. Amid scenes of
pleasant life and enjoyment came sorrow and sadness and suffering
and woe. How could he do this terrible murderous action?
My heart is in deep sympathy for the one who is left. I have been
repeating over and over, Oh, how short come all words of human
sympathy. There are thousands that would speak words to relieve if
possible the breaking heart, but they do not understand how feeble
are words to comfort the bereaved one, who in her feebleness ever
found a human heart in her husband, full of tenderness and compassion
and love. The strong human arm upon which the frail suffering wife
leaned, is not.
I do not wish that our sister should have less regret and less love for
the faithful husband, but that she should now look to her best Friend,
One whose love has been expressed to her all her life. I would speak
to her the words of
Isaiah 61:1-3
: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon
Me; because the Lord hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto
the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are
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bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of
vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them