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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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name of God may be magnified.<br />

Medical missi<strong>on</strong>ary work is in no case to be<br />

divorced from the gospel ministry. The Lord has<br />

specified that the two shall be as closely c<strong>on</strong>nected<br />

as the arm is with the body. Without this uni<strong>on</strong><br />

neither part of the work is complete. The medical<br />

missi<strong>on</strong>ary work is the gospel in illustrati<strong>on</strong>.<br />

But God did not design that the medical<br />

missi<strong>on</strong>ary work should eclipse the work of the<br />

third angel’s message. The arm is not to become<br />

the body. The third angel’s message is the gospel<br />

message for these last days, and in no case is it to<br />

be overshadowed by other interests and made to<br />

appear an unessential c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong>. When in our<br />

instituti<strong>on</strong>s anything is placed above the third<br />

angel’s message, the gospel is not there the great<br />

leading power.<br />

The cross is the center of all religious<br />

instituti<strong>on</strong>s. These instituti<strong>on</strong>s are to be under the<br />

c<strong>on</strong>trol of the Spirit of God; in no instituti<strong>on</strong> is any<br />

<strong>on</strong>e man to be the sole head. The divine mind has<br />

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