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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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poverty. Shall we refuse to deny ourselves for His<br />

sake? Shall we refuse to become medical<br />

missi<strong>on</strong>ary workers unless we can follow the<br />

customs of the world, making a display such as<br />

worldlings make? ...<br />

My brother, my sister, take up your work right<br />

where you are. Do your best, ever looking to Jesus,<br />

the Author and Finisher of our faith. In no other<br />

way can we do the work of God and magnify His<br />

truth than by following in the footsteps of Him who<br />

gave up His high command to come to our world,<br />

that through His humiliati<strong>on</strong> and suffering, human<br />

beings might become partakers of the divine<br />

nature. For our sake He became poor, that through<br />

His poverty we might come into possessi<strong>on</strong> of the<br />

eternal riches....<br />

Intelligent, self-denying, self-sacrificing men<br />

are now needed—men who realize the solemnity<br />

and importance of God’s work, and who as<br />

Christian philanthropists will fulfill the<br />

commissi<strong>on</strong> of Christ. The medical missi<strong>on</strong>ary<br />

work given us to do means something to every <strong>on</strong>e<br />

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