Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Consider the Cause as a Whole
The Lord has need of all kinds of skillful
workmen. “He gave some, apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors
and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the
work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body
of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a
perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:11-13.
Every child of God should have sanctified
judgment to consider the cause as a whole and the
relation of each part to every other part, that none
may lack. The field is large, and there is a great
work of reform to be carried forward, not in one or
two lines, but in every line. The medical
missionary work is a part of this work of reform,
but it should never become the means of separating
the workers in the ministry from their field of
labor. The education of students in medical
missionary lines is not complete unless they are
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