Medical Missionary Manual TOC

The Medical

Missionary Manual

COMPILED FROM THE WRITINGS OF

ELLEN G. WHITE

2002

> > A SCHOOL TEXTBOOK AND A WORKING GUIDE TO THE TYPE OF MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK

DESCRIBED IN THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY

"Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel, the door through which the truth for this time is to find entrance to many homes. God’s people are to be genuine medical missionaries, for they are to learn to minister to the needs of both soul and body. The purest unselfishness is to be shown by our workers as, with the knowledge and experience gained by practical work, they go out to give treatments to the sick. As they go from house to house they will find access to many hearts. Many will be reached who otherwise never would have heard the gospel message." —Welfare Ministry, 125

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

### — SECTION ONE —

### ORIGIN, PURPOSE, AND FUTURE

1 – Why the Medical Missionary Work and Health Message Was Given to the Remnant Church

What makes it so Important to the Lives and Work of a People

Keeping the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus —and to a World on the Brink of Destruction?

2 – The Message of Isaiah Fifty-Eight to the Remnant Church

The Blueprint

for preparing a people for the loud cry and translation

The Blueprint

for preparing a people for the loud cry and translation

The Blueprint

for preparing a people for the loud cry and translation

3 – The Future of Medical Missionary Work

The Blueprint

for finishing the work

### — SECTION TWO —

### BLUEPRINT EVANGELISM

4 – Those Who Are Called to Medical Missionary Work

The Medical Missionary Commission

5 – Where and How Medical Missionaries Should Receive Their Training

The blueprint for medical missionary schools

6 – How Small Groups of Medical Missionaries Should Work

The blueprint for medical missionary team evangelism

7 – How Medical Missionary Institutions Should Operate

The blueprint for medical missionary center evangelism

### — SECTION THREE —

### PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS

8 – Working Principles Which Should be Adhered to

(Reference outline only.

The next chapter will include many of these quotes.)

9 – Guiding Principles in the Establishment and Operation of Medical Missionary Institutions

The blueprint for personal and institutional business standards

9 B– Guiding Principles in Medical Missionary Institutions

10 – Working Standards That Should be Adhered to

The blueprint for medical missionary "Professional" qualifications and standards

### — SECTION FOUR —

###

A MINISTRY OF HEALING

11 – How Jesus Carried on His Medical Missionary Work

The blueprint

for the Medical Practice of the Great Physician

12 – How the Ordained Ministry Should Relate Itself to Medical Missionary Work

The blueprint for a united medical missionary evangelism —Without Compromise

13 – The Areas of Work and Instruction in Which a Medical Missionary Should Engage

The blueprint for the Specific Work of a medical missionary

14 – The Ten Steps that Must Be Followed in the Recovery of Health

The blueprint

for divine healing

### — SECTION FIVE —

### THE SIMPLE REMEDIES

15 – Why God Has Directed His People to Employ the Simple Remedies, Rather than Relying upon Prayer Alone for Healing

The blueprint for Teaching obedience to God’s Laws and protecting Ourselves from the Miraculous Deceptions of Satan — through the Use of Simple Remedies

16 – Specific Principles by Which We Can Know Which Remedies Are "Drugs" and Which Are Approved of God

The blueprint for Identifying and differentiating between "Drugs" and "Natural Remedies"

17 – How Water Can Aid in the Recovery of the Sick

The blueprint for water treatments

18 – How Herbs Can Aid in the Recovery of the Sick

The blueprint for the remedial use of herbs

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— SECTION SIX —

### HEALTH PRINCIPLES

19 – Should We Ever Compromise Our Health Principles in order to Help Those around Us?

The blueprint for reaching the People while still Personally obeying the law of God

20 – Comments on the Common Cold

A blueprint for dealing with a simple physical problem

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— SECTION SEVEN —

### THE BIBLE PATTERN

21 - The Health Message as It is Found in the Bible

The Bible blueprint for the health message

22 – Medical Missionary Work as it is Found in the Bible

The Bible Blueprint for Medical Missionary Work

23 – Health and Medical Missionary Stories in the Bible

The Bible blueprint in story form

24 – Health and Medical Missionary Texts, Arranged Book by Book

The Bible blueprint in key texts

25 – Divine Healing as Found in the Bible

The Bible blueprint for how to get well

"The transgression of physical law is the transgression of God’s law. Our Creator is Jesus Christ. He is the author of our being. He has created the human structure. He is the author of physical laws, as He is the author of the moral law. And the human being who is careless and reckless of the habits and practices that concern his physical life and health, sins against God." —Counsels on Diet and Foods, 43

"Thus genuine medical missionary work is bound up inseparably with the keeping of God’s commandments, of which the Sabbath is especially mentioned, since it is the great memorial of God’s creative work. Its observance is bound up with the work of restoring the moral image of God in man. This is the ministry which God’s people are to carry forward at this time. This ministry, rightly performed, will bring rich blessings to the church." —6 Testimonies, 266

# INTRODUCTION

In the summer of 1960, the present writer set to work to devise ways and means to conduct a health and medical missionary work in a large West Coast city—a work that would fulfill the blueprint given to the people of God in the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy. Before the year was out, he realized that a clearer understanding was needed of what constitutes the "blueprint" in regard to medical missionary work. Ignorance of the scope and urgency of the work was keeping him from doing the work properly, and it was keeping other Advent believers from starting a similar work elsewhere.

What is included in medical missionary work? Who should be doing it? How should it be carried on? What institutions should be operated within the cities? Which ones should be located only in the country? How important is such a work? Are only the professionals to have a part in it? What remedies are to the be used? Which are forbidden? These are all questions that need answers.

This led to research in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. The compiling, arranging, and typing of quotations continued for a full year.

Back in those days, the Three Volume Index had not yet been published. There was no laser-disk concordance to help locate passages. The still-later E.G. White CD was far in the future. So, in order to make the compilation as complete as possible, the compiler carefully read through each Spirit of Prophecy health book and typed out everything that would explain the urgency, scope, and methodology of the medical missionary work which God had commanded His people to do in these last days. The study included all the published E.G. White books, plus a number of long-out-of-print publications, such as Loma Linda Messages.

When the project was completed, the compiler carefully read through the entire Bible, in order to prepare the last five chapters of the book you now have in hand.

All the collected material was then carefully organized under its logical topics, and the slow work of typing mimeograph stencils began. If you have ever typed a mimeograph stencil, you will know what a task it would be to type two hundred pages of them. Thousands of copies of the first several chapters were mimeographed, as well as three hundred copies of the complete Manual. Within a few months, that first edition was completely sold out, but no funds were available for a second print run.

Believing that the seed had been sown and that many would now take hold of genuine medical missionary work, the author moved his family to the Midwest, and there discovered the urgent call in the Spirit of Prophecy to widely circulate the messages of the book, The Great Controversy. So work was begun on the Great Controversy radio broadcasts, which within the next two years were to go into sixteen states.

More years passed, and it became obvious that The Medical Missionary Manual needed to be reprinted. Yet the original stencils were by that time ruined, and there was no money or time to retype them. Fortunately, one precious copy had been retained. The conviction was heavy that this material must be placed in a clearer typeface and reprinted. Yet, after working all day to support his family and spend much of the evening with his family, there was little time for the task. On one occasion, he knelt before God and wept over the situation.

Then, in the spring of 1977, in a small attic room in Southern Illinois, the present writer rededicated the remainder of his life to doing God’s work. The Great Controversy broadcasts were begun again, and within a year were broadcasting on four wide-area coverage skywave (satellite reflected) stations.

But a growing insight of many years had become a settled conviction: The printed page would, to the end of time, be more powerful than the spoken word.

So in the summer of 1979, typesetting began on the Sabbath tracts and The Great Controversy tracts. It was hoped that work on The Medical Missionary Manual would begin soon; but, in the winter of 1979-1980, as the Glacier View Meetings drew near, the urgency of the incoming new theology inroads in our denomination demanded attention, and tracts defending our historic positions began to be typeset.

In the summer of 1980, the printing of those tracts began. Already sixteen Great Controversy tracts, twenty Sabbath tracts, and tracts defending historic beliefs had been set in type and were ready for publication. Eventually other tracts were produced, dealing with such topics as the loosened standards on wedding rings, music, and Celebrationism in the church.

The task of typesetting The Medical Missionary Manual was assigned to a worker, and weeks passed as it was typed into a new computer program. About two months later the task was completed and the material was stored on floppy disks, preparatory to running it through a typesetting process. But then the discovery was made that a totally untranslatable computer program had been used. It was not transferable to any form of typesetting. Time and work had been lost.

A year passed and again we tried to typeset the Manual. When it was completed, we found that a poor typing job had been done, and extensive corrections had to be made. This took more time.

At last the book was ready for the printer, but funds were lacking with which to print it in low-cost paperback for widespread circulation among our people. Appeals were sent out, but there was little response.

Portions of the book (chapters on Isaiah 58, drug identification, etc.) were printed in tract format. But still the Manual had not been reprinted.

With the exception of Great Controversy, there is no book that we have tried to publish with which we encountered so many problems.

We are told that Satan will contest every effort to do the right work in these last days. What are you, dear friend, trying to do for God? How determined are you to resolutely obey your Bible-Spirit of Prophecy heritage? Be assured that you will meet with difficulties as you attempt to fulfill the will of God for your life. But know also that holy angels will help you. They are recording in the books of heaven that you are loyal to your Creator at a time when a large part of the world is in rebellion. In the midst of all that happens, we can unitedly thank God for His abundant blessings. He alone can provide the inspired seed, plant it in the hearts of men, and bring forth the harvest. He alone can guide and enable, go before, and follow after.

God will always care for, and defend, the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy truths He has given to mankind. If the people of God will but study the Word and obey it, without intermingling their own speculations into it, they will be strengthened and helped. Simple obedience, by faith, to God’s Word, in the enabling power of Christ is what is needed today.

A number of years ago, we were finally able to print this book, but we later discovered that two pages from the original book (from Chapter 14) had not been typed into the published book. This and other minor problems have been corrected, and we now bring you the best edition yet of this extremely helpful book. In addition, the print size is now much larger.

With respect to its coverage, the Medical Missionary Manual is unique in remnant literature. There are compilations dealing with healthful living and natural remedies, but they do not explain the practicalities of carrying on the work, as they are given in the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy.

All you need to do is to read the first three chapters of this Manual in order to see that it is a book needed by every Advent believer.

As we uplift, practice, and widely share the messages given in the Inspired Word of God—the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, Heaven will cooperate with our efforts. The future may be darkening rapidly among our people and in the world around us, but the pathway before the remnant will ever be bright—as long as they will value, study, and obey His Written Word. —vf

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