Christ embraced the world in His missionary
work, and the Lord has shown me by revelation that it is not
His plan for large centers to be made, for large institutions
to be established, and for the funds of our people in all parts
of the world to be exhausted in the support of a few large institutions,
when the necessities of the times call for something to be done,
as providence opens the way, in many places. Plants should be
established in various places all over the world. First one,
and then another, part of the vineyard is to be entered, until
all has been cultivated. Efforts are to be put forth wherever
the need is greatest. But we cannot carry on this aggressive
warfare and at the same time make an extravagant outlay of means
in a few places.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium is too large.
A great many workers will be required to care for the patients
who come. A tenth of the number of patients who come to that
institution is as many as can be cared for with the best results
in one medical missionary center. Centers should be made in all
the cities that are unacquainted with the great work that the
Lord would have done to warn the world that the end of all things
is at hand. "There is too much," said the Great Teacher,
"in one place."
Let those who have fitted themselves to engage in medical missionary work in foreign countries go to the places that they expect to make their field of labor, and begin work right among the people, learning the language as they work. Very soon they will find that they can teach the simple truths of God's word.