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missionary work is not to take on undue importance. It should be done
without neglecting other lines of work.—
Letter 139, 1898
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The Work of the Right Hand—The right hand is used to open
doors through which the body may find entrance. This is the part the
medical missionary work is to act. It is to largely prepare the way for
the reception of the truth for this time. A body without hands is useless.
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In giving honor to the body, honor must also be given to the helping
hands, which are agencies of such importance that without them the
body can do nothing. Therefore the body which treats indifferently the
right hand, refusing its aid, is able to accomplish nothing.—
Manuscript
55, 1901
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A Part of a Great Whole—The medical missionary work ought
always to have existed in the work of reform. But it is never to become
the means of separating the workers in the ministry from their work.
Christ united these two branches in all his labors. The medical mis-
sionary work is part of the great whole, as the arm is part of the body.
But the arm is not to say to the head, I have no need of thee. The body
has need of the head decidedly, and the arms, in order to do active,
aggressive work. The body is not to become the arm. Each member
has its appointed work to perform.—
Manuscript 105, 1899
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The Prayer of the Medical Missionary—Pastors and teachers
are to work intelligently in their lines, instructing church members how
to work in medical missionary lines. When the professed followers of
Christ have an indwelling Saviour, they will be found doing as Christ
did. They will have no opportunity to rust through inaction. They will
have enough to do. And the work which they do under the auspices of
the church will be their greatest means of communicating light.
The man who is working according to God’s plan will pray, “Let
it be known this day in my work for suffering humanity that there is
a God in Israel, and that I am thy servant. Let it be seen that I am
working, not according to my own impulse and wisdom, but according
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to thy word.”
When man places himself in this attitude, and realizes that he is
working out God’s plan, and that God is working out His plan through
him, he is in possession of divine power, which knows nothing of
defeat. All the power of counteragencies is of no more account than
the chaff of the threshing floor.—
Manuscript 115, 1899
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