There is great need of an increase of knowledge
in every line of health reform. Those who have had the privilege
of hearing the truth are to give the trumpet a certain sound
as they proclaim the third angel's message. Special lines of
work are to be taken up, such as the medical missionary work.
This work should be carried forward in connection with the gospel
message for this time. Genuine medical missionary work is the
gospel practiced. Those who cannot see the bearing of this work
should not feel authorized to control any phase of it until they
do understand its bearing.
I wish to say decidedly that the Lord has
accomplished great good through the medical missionary work,
and that He has used our leading physician as His appointed agent.
Not everything in the medical work has been without a flaw. With
it have been blended many things that have marred its sacredness.
But the Lord will take supervision of His cause, and will see
that it does not become disproportionate in this one branch.
The work will not be marred if the church will arise and shine,
making it manifest that her light has come, and that the glory
of the Lord is risen upon her.
The medical missionary workers are to be
purified, sanctified, ennobled. They are to rise to the highest
point of excellence. They are to be molded and fashioned after
the divine similitude. Then they will see that health reform
and medical missionary work are to be bound up with the preaching
of the gospel.
The reason why church members do not understand
this branch of the work is that they are not following the light,
walking step by step after their great Leader. The medical missionary
work is of God and bears His signature. For this reason let man
keep his hands off it and not desire to manage it according to
his own ideas.
Our message is a world-wide message. And
while means is not to be absorbed in one line of work, so that
the last gospel message cannot be carried into new fields, the
medical missionary work is not in any wise to be disparaged;
it is not to be represented as an inferior work. The world is
a great lazar house; it is corrupted under the inhabitants thereof,
and misery is universal. The Lord has given our leading physician
a work in aiding to prepare a people to stand in the great day
of God. But he is to work under the supervision of God. There
are some things in his labors that will have to be modeled more
closely after the principles of the head worker.