God’s
Purpose in Medical Missionary Work
Melbourne, N. S.
W., February 3, 1898.
My Dear Brother:
Special light has been given me that you are in danger
of losing sight
of the work for this time. You are erecting barriers to separate
your work, and
those you are educating, from the church. This must not be.
Those who are
receiving instruction in medical missionary lines should be led
to realize that
their education is to fit them to do better work in connection
with the
ministers of God. You are to remember, my brother, that the Lord
has a people
upon the earth whom He respects. But your words, and the way
in which they
are often spoken, create unbelief in the position that we occupy
as a people. You
are in danger of failing to hold fast the faith once delivered
to the saints,
of making shipwreck of your faith. The words were spoken: “A
very small leak
will sink a ship. One defective link makes a chain worthless.”
Educate
Medical Missionaries
Remember, my
brother, that medical missionary work is not to take men
from the
ministry, but is to place men in the field, better qualified to minister
because of their
knowledge of medical missionary work. Young men should
receive an
education in medical missionary lines and should then go forth to
connect with the
ministers. They should not be influenced to give themselves
exclusively to
the work of rescuing the fallen and degraded. That work is
found everywhere
and is to be combined with the work of preparing a people
to make Bible
truth their defense against the sophistries of worldlings and of
the fallen
church. The third angel is to go forth with great power. Let none
ignore this work
or treat it as of little
158
importance. The
truth is to be proclaimed to the world, that men and women
may see the
light.
REFERENCE
Testimonies
for the Church
Volume
Eight
Ellen
G. White
1904
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