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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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As you faithfully do your duty in the home, the<br />

father as a priest of the household, the mother as a<br />

home missi<strong>on</strong>ary, you are multiplying agencies for<br />

doing good outside of the home. As you improve<br />

your own powers, you are becoming better fitted to<br />

labor in the church and in the neighborhood. By<br />

binding your children to yourselves and to God,<br />

fathers and mothers and children become laborers<br />

together with God.<br />

As a means of overcoming prejudice and<br />

gaining access to minds, medical missi<strong>on</strong>ary work<br />

must be d<strong>on</strong>e, not in <strong>on</strong>e or two places <strong>on</strong>ly, but in<br />

many places where the truth has not yet been<br />

proclaimed. We are to work as gospel medical<br />

missi<strong>on</strong>aries, to heal the sin-sick souls by giving<br />

them the message of salvati<strong>on</strong>.—Testim<strong>on</strong>ies for<br />

the Church 9:211 (1909).<br />

Gospel Workers to Teach <strong>Health</strong> Reform<br />

Our ministers should become intelligent <strong>on</strong><br />

health reform. They need to become acquainted<br />

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