- 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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Education Better Than Miraculous Healing
Some have asked me, “Why should we have sanitariums? Why should we not, like Christ, pray for the sick, that they may be healed miraculously?” I have answered, “Suppose we were able to do this in all cases; how many would appreciate the healing? Would those who were healed become health reformers, or continue to be health destroyers?”CME 34.2
Jesus Christ is the Great Healer, but He desires that by living in conformity with His laws, we may co-operate with Him in the recovery and the maintenance of health. Combined with the work of healing there must be an imparting of knowledge of how to resist temptations. Those who come to our sanitariums should be aroused to a sense of their own responsibility to work in harmony with the God of truth.CME 34.3
We cannot heal. We cannot change the diseased conditions of the body. But it is our part, as medical missionaries, as workers together with God, to use the means that He has provided. Then we should pray that God will bless these agencies. We do believe in a God; we believe in a God who hears and answers prayer. He has said, “Ask, and ye shall receive; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”—Medical Ministry, 13.CME 35.1