Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

made the principal and all-important line. This
work is to be combined with the work of
instructing the churches. Our people are to be
taught how to help the needy and the outcast.
No line of our faith that has made us what we
are is to be weakened. We have the old landmarks
of truth, experience, and duty, and we are to stand
firm in defense of our principles, in full view of the
world. With hearts filled with interest and
solicitude, we are to give the invitation to those in
the highways and the byways. Medical missionary
work is to be done. But this is only one part of the
work that is to be accomplished, and it is not to be
made all and in all. It is to be to the work of God as
the hand is to the body. There may be unworthy
ones connected with the ministry, yet no one can
ignore the ministry without ignoring God.
My brother, you are represented to me as in
danger of standing apart from our people, feeling
that you are a complete whole. But if you bind
yourself up with those of your own mind, apart
from the church, which is Christ’s body, you will
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