Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

methods of doing medical missionary work, we His
followers ought to practice the same self-denial and
self-sacrifice.
Christ gives to all the invitation: “Come unto
Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I
will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and
learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and
ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is
easy, and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30.
If all will wear Christ’s yoke, if all will learn in His
school the lessons that He teaches, there will be
sufficient means to establish gospel medical
missionary work in many places.
Let none say, “I will engage in this work for a
stipulated sum. If I do not receive this sum, I will
not do the work.” Those who say this show that
they are not wearing Christ’s yoke; they are not
learning His meekness and lowliness. Christ might
have come to this world with a retinue of angels,
but instead He came as a babe and lived a life of
lowliness and poverty. His glory was in His
simplicity. He suffered for us the privations of
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