- Foreword
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- The Entering Wedge
- The Compassion of Christ Revealed
- Divine Origin
- The Gospel of Health
- The Right Hand of the Gospel
- It Opens Doors
- The Work for Today
- An Early Call to Action—1867
- A Rallying Call in 1902
- The Call Repeated in 1907
- The Call of Today
- Zeal and Perseverance Required
- In Time of Persecution
- The Distinguishing Sign
- Ways Will Open
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- Ministering to Body and Soul
- A Door of Entrance to the Cities
- Organize for Harmonious Action
- The Church a Training School
- The Need for Consecrated Nurses
- Serve With Sanctified Understanding
- Medical Missions in Every City
- The City Mission and Training School
- Training Under Competent Leaders
- Laboring as God's Helping Hand
- Self-supporting Workers
- Hygienic Restaurants as Missionary Centers
- To Supply Spiritual Food
- Results of Consecrated Effort
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- Extent of the Work
- Educate, Educate, Educate
- Teach Skillfully
- A Continual Reform Essential
- Responsibility of Those Who Have Light
- Thousands Eager to Learn
- The Public to Be Deeply Stirred
- Health Talks to Be Given
- Physiology to Be Taught
- Represented by Advance Principles
- Education Better Than Miraculous Healing
- When Prayer for Healing Is Presumption
- Instruction in Diet by Evangelistic Workers
- A Knowledge of Healthful Cookery
- Simplicity in Cooking
- Decision Without Narrow Conceit
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Carrying the Gospel to the Poor
The poverty of the people to whom we are sent is not to prevent us from working for them. Christ came to this earth to walk and work among the poor and suffering. They received the greatest share of His attention. And today, in the person of His children, He visits the poor and needy, relieving woe and alleviating suffering.CME 23.2
Take away suffering and need, and we should have no way of understanding the mercy and love of God, no way of knowing the compassionate, sympathetic heavenly Father. Never does the gospel put on an aspect of greater loveliness than when it is brought to the most needy and destitute regions. Then it is that its light shines forth with the clearest radiance and the greatest power. Truth from the Word of God enters the hovel of the peasant; rays from the Sun of Righteousness light up the rude cottage of the poor, bringing gladness to the sick and suffering. Angels of God are there, and the simple faith shown makes the crust of bread and the cup of water a banquet. The sin-pardoning Saviour welcomes the poor and ignorant, and gives them to eat of the bread that comes down from heaven. They drink of the water of life. Those who have been loathed and abandoned are through faith and pardon raised to the dignity of sons and daughters of God. Lifted above the world, they sit in heavenly places in Christ. They may have no earthly treasure, but they have found the Pearl of great price.—Testimonies for the Church 7:226, 227.CME 23.3