The Church Officers’
JUNE, 1927
Vor, XIV
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Following the Pattern
WHEN God was about to establish a definite line of gospel
service on earth, to organize a movement of which He was to
be the recognized Leader, He took time to instruct Tis chosen
human leader as to what he was to do, and this imstruction
included not only the great features of this spiritual gospel
service, hut also the minutest details. Not only were the exact
measurements of the sanetuary given, but careful instruetion
included every fixture pertaining to it, down to the smallest
instrument used about the altar. And to impress Hig servant
Moses still further, God said to him as he turned to go down to
the camp, “ Look that thou make them after their pattern, whieh
was showed thee in the mount.” Ex. 25: 40.
Christ Taught His Disciples How to Labor for the People
When Jesus came to re-establish His gospel work on earth,
of whieh the tabernacle services were a type, He, too, gave His
disciples explicit instruetion as to how they wsre ito go about
their work. They were not left to choose their own methods,
some to labor in one fashion, some another. General principles
were laid down, as well as explicit instruetion given, incorporat-
ing the very methods Jesus Himself had demonstrated to be
successful while with them. He gaid,
“ Ag ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at
hand. Heal the siek, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast
out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” Matt 10:7, 8.
Preaching and healing were to be combined. The disciples
were commissioned to preach deliverance from sin and relief
from disease.
“ They went forth [two and two], and preached everywhere,
the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs
following,” Mark 16: 20.
“ The work of the disciples was to spread a knowledge of the
gospel. To them was committed the work of proclaiming to all
the world the good news that Christ brought to men. That work
they accomplished for the people of their time. To every nation
under heaven the gospel was carried in a single generation ’—
“ The Ministry of Healing,” p. 141.
They followed the pattern showed them in the mount, They
went ‘forth, amid great opposition, with a definite -heaven-ap-
pointed mission, fully conseious that the promised Presence
of the powerful Christ was with them. The Acts of the Apos-
_among the Inc Indians, ag an illustration.
tles tells the story. Everywhere the wonderful life, death, and
resurrection of the Christ of Nazareth was made known, and
they forgot not their appointed ministry to the sick.
“ Believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both
of men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the
sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, .
and they were healed every one.” Acts 5: 14-186.
The Same Pattern Given Seventh-day Adventists
It has pleased the Lord in these last days, in committing to
His people the finishing work of the gospel in all the earth, to
give afresh this same pattern, this ideal method of labor, of
approach among the people everywhere. And how significant
it is that in all this wonderful instruetion, this counsel given
His people as to how they are to labor, again preaching
and teaching and healing are combined — are to go band in
hand. Space permits citing only a few of the many, many ad- .
monitions of the Spirit upon thiz fundamental prineiple of
labor, thig united ministry of healing for the body and healing
for the soul.
“Whether in foreign missions or in the home field, all mis-
sionaries, both men and women, will gain much more ready
access to the people, and will find their usefulness greatly in-
creased, if they are able to minister to the sick. . .. All gos-
pel workers should know how to give the simple treatments that
do so much to relieve pain and remove disease.’— The Ministry
of Healing,” pp. 145, 146,
“ Those who are receiving instruction in medical missionary
lines should be led to realize that their education is to fit them
to do better work in connection with the ministers of God.
You are to remember, my brother, that the Lord has a people
upon the earth whom He respects. ,. . Medical missionary
work is not to take men from the ministry, but ig to place men
in the field, better qualified to minister because of their knowl-
edge of medical missionary work. Young men should receive
an education in medical missionary lines, and should then go
forth to connect with the ministers. They should net be influ-
enced to give themselves exclusively to the work of rescuing the
fallen and degraded.”—* Testimonies,” Vol. VIII, p, 158.
“ Medical missionary work is in no case to be divorced from
the gospel ministry. The Lord has specified that the two shall
be as closely connected as the arm is with the body. Without
this union neither part of the work is complete. The medical
misgionary work is the gospel in illustration”—Id., Vol. VI,
pp. 240, 241. .
“ God did not design that the medical missionary work shoul
eelipse the work of the third angel’s message. The arm is not
to become the body. The third angel’s message is the gospel
message for these last days, and In no case is it to be over-
shadowed by other interests and made to appear an unessential
consideration. When in our institutions anything is placed
above the third angel’s message, the gospel is not there the
great leading power. The cross is the center of all religious
institutions. These institutions are to be under the eontrol of
the Spirit of God: in no ingtitution is any one man to be the
sole head. The divine mind has men for every place.”—Id.,
page 241.
“In the work of the gospel the Lord uses different instru.
mentalities, and nothing is to be allowed to separate these in-
strumentalities, Never should a sanitarium- be established am
an enterprige independent of the church. Our physicians are
to unite with the work of the ministers of the gospel. Through
their labors souls are to be saved, that the name of God may
be magnified.”— Id., p. 240.
This is the pattern shown us in the mount. There can be
no misunderstanding in this instruetion, it is so plain, so simple,
vet withal so definite and comprehensive, It bears the imprint
of the divine Master — He who sent forth workers into His
vineyard nineteen hundred years ago. It was a double ministry
then of teaching and healing, It is to be the same today.
Christ’s manifest presence of converting, healing power went
with the disciples of old as they followed His instruction then.
And it is a very significant and noteworthy feature that in the
gospel ministry put forth both in mission lands and in home
fields where this combined ministry of teaching and healing has
gone hand in hand, cur most wonderful achievements for God
are seen. :
Take, for example, the wonderful work about Lake Titicaca,
And there are