Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Henceforth medical missionary work is to be
carried forward with greater earnestness. Medical
missions should be opened as pioneer agencies for
the proclamation of the third angel’s message. How
great is the need of means to do this line of work!
Gospel medical missions cannot be established
without financial aid. Every such enterprise calls
for our sympathy and for our means, that facilities
may be provided to make the work successful.
A special work is to be done in places where
people are constantly coming and going. Christ
labored in Capernaum much of the time because
this was a place through which travelers were
constantly passing and where many often tarried.
Christ sought the people where they were and
placed before them the great truths in regard to His
kingdom. As He went from place to place, He
blessed and comforted the suffering and healed the
sick. This is our work. Small companies are to go
forth to do the work to which Christ appointed His
disciples. While laboring as evangelists they can
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