A Call to Medical
Evangelism and Health
Education
Ellen G. White
1933
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Contents
Information about this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1—A Call to Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Entering Wedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Compassion of Christ Revealed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Divine Origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Gospel of Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Right Hand of the Gospel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
It Opens Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Work for Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
An Early Call to Action—1867 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A Rallying Call in 1902 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Call Repeated in 1907 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Call of Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Zeal and Perseverance Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
In Time of Persecution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Distinguishing Sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ways Will Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2—The Call of the Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Who Are Called . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Companies of Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Redeeming the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
A Mighty Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Teach in Simplicity and Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
With Sympathy and Tenderness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Divine Power Will Attend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 3—Ways of Working . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Ministering to Body and Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A Door of Entrance to the Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Organize for Harmonious Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The Church a Training School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Need for Consecrated Nurses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Serve With Sanctified Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Medical Missions in Every City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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The City Mission and Training School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Training Under Competent Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Laboring as God’s Helping Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Self-supporting Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Hygienic Restaurants as Missionary Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
To Supply Spiritual Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Results of Consecrated Effort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 4—Christian Help Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Ministering to Those in Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Carrying the Gospel to the Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Helping the Helpless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
A Witness to the Power of Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Need of Greater Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Keeping Our Souls Alive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Use Your Humble Talent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
An Expression of Gratitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 5—A Complete Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Christ, Our Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Physician as an Evangelist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Minister as a Medical Missionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Teaching Health Principles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Missionary Nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Do Not Wait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 6—Teaching Health Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Extent of the Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Educate, Educate, Educate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Teach Skillfully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
A Continual Reform Essential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Responsibility of Those Who Have Light. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Thousands Eager to Learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The Public to Be Deeply Stirred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Health Talks to Be Given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Physiology to Be Taught . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Represented by Advance Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Education Better Than Miraculous Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
When Prayer for Healing Is Presumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Instruction in Diet by Evangelistic Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
A Knowledge of Healthful Cookery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
