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Divine Help in Doing Samaritan Work, May 27
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and
when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and
bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own
beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luke 10:33, 34
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I have been shown that the medical missionary work will discover, in the
very depths of degradation, men who once possessed fine minds, richest qual-
ifications, who will be rescued, by proper labor, from their fallen condition.
It is the truth as it is in Jesus that is to be brought before human minds after
they have been sympathetically cared for and their physical necessities met.
The Holy Spirit is working and cooperating with the human agencies that are
laboring for such souls, and some will appreciate the foundation upon a rock
for their religious faith.
There is to be no startling communication of strange doctrine to these
subjects whom God loves and pities; but as they are helped physically by the
medical missionary workers, the Holy Spirit cooperates with the minister of
human agencies to arouse the moral powers. The mental powers are awakened
into activity, and these poor souls will, many of them, be saved in the kingdom
of God.
Nothing can, or ever will, give character to the work in the presentation
of truth to help the people just where they are so well as Samaritan work.
A work properly conducted to save poor sinners that have been passed by
the churches will be the entering wedge whereby the truth will find standing
room. A different order of things needs to be established among us as a
people, and as this class of work is done, there will be created an entirely
different atmosphere surrounding the souls of the workers; for the Holy Spirit
communicates to all those who are doing God’s service, and those who are
worked by the Holy Spirit will be a power for God in lifting up, strengthening,
and saving the souls that are ready to perish.—
Welfare Ministry, 131, 132
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