Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

take hold upon His strength.
Never has the world’s need for teaching and
healing been greater than it is today. The world is
full of those who need to be ministered unto--the
weak, the helpless, the ignorant, the degraded. The
continual transgression of man for nearly six
thousand years has brought sickness, pain, and
death as its fruit. Multitudes are perishing for lack
of knowledge.
As God’s ministers behold the awful results of
long-continued sin, their hearts are touched with
the world’s woe, and they are endeavoring to labor
as the Master Workman and His disciples labored.
Connected with the divine Healer, they are going
forth in the power of His might to teach and to
heal. They realize that the gospel is the only
antidote for sin, and that as Christ’s witnesses they
are to bear testimony to its power. As they point
the afflicted ones to the Lamb of God, who taketh
away the sin of the world, His transforming grace
and miracle-working power are causing many to
accept the message of truth that is borne. His
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