igious aggression subverts the liberties of our nation, those
[12] who would stand for freedom of conscience will be placed in unfavorable
positions. For their own sake, they should, while they have
the opportunity, become intelligent in regard to disease, its causes,
prevention, and cure. All those who do this will find a field of labor
anywhere. There will be suffering ones, plenty of them, who will
need help, not only among those of our own faith, but largely among
those who know not the truth. The shortness of time demands an
energy that has not been aroused among those who claim to believe
the present truth.—Counsels on Health, 506.
The Distinguishing Sign
True sympathy between man and his fellow men is to be the
sign distinguishing those who love and fear God from those who are
unmindful of His law. How great the sympathy that Christ expressed
in coming to this world to give His life a sacrifice for a dying world!
His religion led to the doing of genuine medical missionary work.
He was a healing power. “I will have mercy, and not sacrifice,” He
said. This is the test that the great Author of truth used to distinguish
between true religion and false. God wants His medical missionaries
to act with the tenderness and compassion that Christ would show
were He in our world.—Medical Ministry, 251.
How slow men are to understand God’s preparation for the day
of His power. He works today to reach hearts in the same way that
He worked when Christ was upon this earth. In reading the Word of
God, we see that Christ brought medical missionary work into His
ministry. Cannot our eyes be opened to discern Christ’s methods?
Cannot we understand the commission He gave to His disciples and
to us?
The world must have an antidote for sin. A
