Extent of the Work
God has qualified His people to enlighten the world. He has
entrusted them with faculties by which they are to extend His work
until it shall encircle the globe. In all parts of the earth, they are
to establish sanitariums, schools, publishing houses, and kindred
facilities for the accomplishment of His work.
The closing message of the gospel is to be carried to “every
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” Revelation 14:6. In
foreign countries many enterprises for the advancement of this message
must yet be begun and carried forward. The opening of hygienic
restaurants and treatment rooms, and the establishment of sanitariums
for the care of the sick and the suffering, is just as necessary
in Europe as in America. In many lands medical missions are to
be established to act as God’s helping hand in ministering to the
afflicted.—Testimonies for the Church 7:51.
Educate, Educate, Educate
We must educate, educate, educate, pleasantly and intelligently.
We must preach the truth, pray the truth, and live the truth, bringing
it, with its gracious, health-giving influences within the reach of
those who know it not. As the sick are brought into touch with the
Life-giver, their faculties of mind and body will be renewed. But in [31]
order for this to be, they must practice self-denial and be temperate
in all things. Thus only can they be saved from physical and spiritual
death and restored to health.—Medical Ministry, 262.
If we would elevate the moral standard in any country where
we may be called to go, we must begin by correcting their physical
habits. Virtue of character depends upon the right action of the
powers of the mind and body.—Counsels on Health, 505.