The right hand is used to open doors through which the body
may find entrance. This is the part the medical missionary work
is to act. It is to largely prepare the way for the reception of the
truth for this time. A body without hands is useless. In giving honor
to the body, honor must also be given to the helping hands, which
are agencies of such importance that without them the body can do
nothing. Therefore the body which treats indifferently the right hand,
refusing its aid, is able to accomplish nothing.—Medical Ministry,
238.
In every place the sick may be found, and those who go forth
as workers for Christ should be true health reformers, prepared to
give those who are sick the simple treatments that will relieve them,
and then pray with them. Thus they will open the door for the
entrance of the truth. The doing of this work will be followed by
good results.—Medical Ministry, 320.
The Work for Today
Why has it not been understood from the Word of God that
the work being done in medical missionary lines is a fulfillment of
the scripture, “Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city,
and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the
blind.... The servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded,
and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out
into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my
house may be filled.”
This is a work that the churches in every locality, north and south
and east and west, should do. The churches have been given the
opportunity of answering this work. Why have they not done it?
