Missionary Families
Missionary families are needed to settle in the waste places. Let farmers, financiers, builders, and those who are skilled in various arts and crafts, go to neglected fields, to improve the land, to establish industries, to prepare humble homes for themselves, and to help their neighbors.
MH 194.3
The rough places of nature, the wild places, God has made attractive by placing beautiful things among the most unsightly. This is the work we are called to do. Even the desert places of the earth, where the outlook appears to be forbidding, may become as the garden of God. “In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, And the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 29:18, 19.
MH 194.4
By instruction in practical lines we can often help the poor most effectively. As a rule, those who have not been trained to work do not have habits of industry, perseverance, economy, and self-denial. They do not know how to manage. Often through lack of carefulness and right judgment there is wasted that which would maintain their families in decency and comfort if it were carefully and economically used. “Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.” Proverbs 13:23.
MH 194.5
We may give to the poor, and harm them, by teaching them to be dependent. Such giving encourages selfishness and helplessness. Often it leads to idleness, extravagance, and intemperance. No man who can earn his own livelihood has a right to depend on others. The proverb “The world owes me a living” has in it the essence of falsehood, fraud, and robbery. The world owes no man a living who is able to work and gain a living for himself.
MH 195.1
Real charity helps men to help themselves. If one comes to our door and asks for food, we should not turn him away hungry; his poverty may be the result of misfortune. But true beneficence means more than mere gifts. It means a genuine interest in the welfare of others. We should seek to understand the needs of the poor and distressed, and to give them the help that will benefit them most. To give thought and time and personal effort costs far more than merely to give money. But it is the truest charity.
MH 195.2
Those who are taught to earn what they receive will more readily learn to make the most of it. And in learning to be self-reliant, they are acquiring that which will not only make them self-sustaining, but will enable them to help others. Teach the importance of life's duties to those who are wasting their opportunities. Show them that Bible religion never makes men idlers. Christ always encouraged industry. “Why stand ye here all the day idle?” He said to the indolent. “I must work ... while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” Matthew 20:6; John 9:4.
MH 195.3
It is the privilege of all to give to the world in their home life, in their customs and practices and order, an evidence of what the gospel can do for those who obey it. Christ came to our world to give us an example of what we may become. He expects His followers to be models of correctness in all the relations of life. He desires the divine touch to be seen upon outward things.
MH 196.1
Our own homes and surroundings should be object lessons, teaching ways of improvement, so that industry, cleanliness, taste, and refinement may take the place of idleness, uncleanness, coarseness, and disorder. By our lives and example we can help others to discern that which is repulsive in their character or their surroundings, and with Christian courtesy we may encourage improvement. As we manifest an interest in them, we shall find opportunity to teach them how to put their energies to the best use.
MH 196.2
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The Ministry of Healing
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Sick","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0069_eng_m_chapter_16_prayer_for_the_sick_135_1113.mp3#duration=973&size=7905105"},{"para_id":"135.1158","title":"Chapter 17\u2014The Use of Remedies","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0071_eng_m_chapter_17_the_use_of_remedies_135_1158.mp3#duration=636&size=5212880"},{"para_id":"135.1193","title":"Chapter 18\u2014Mind Cure","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0074_eng_m_chapter_18_mind_cure_135_1193.mp3#duration=2119&size=17075738"},{"para_id":"135.1309","title":"Chapter 19\u2014In Contact With Nature","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0082_eng_m_chapter_19_in_contact_with_nature_135_1309.mp3#duration=704&size=5757295"},{"para_id":"135.1354","title":"Chapter 20\u2014General Hygiene","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0084_eng_m_chapter_20_general_hygiene_135_1354.mp3#duration=601&size=4927798"},{"para_id":"135.1386","title":"Chapter 21\u2014Hygiene Among the Israelites","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0088_eng_m_chapter_21_hygiene_among_the_israelites_135_1386.mp3#duration=1004&size=8157207"},{"para_id":"135.1448","title":"Chapter 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Child","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0127_eng_m_chapter_32_the_child_135_1907.mp3#duration=938&size=7626448"},{"para_id":"135.1960","title":"Chapter 33\u2014Home Influences","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0132_eng_m_chapter_33_home_influences_135_1960.mp3#duration=655&size=5367311"},{"para_id":"135.1996","title":"Chapter 34\u2014True Education, a Missionary Training","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0134_eng_m_chapter_34_true_education_a_missionary_training_135_1996.mp3#duration=1359&size=10999969"},{"para_id":"135.2075","title":"Chapter 35\u2014A True Knowledge of God","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0140_eng_m_chapter_35_a_true_knowledge_of_god_135_2075.mp3#duration=1928&size=15547779"},{"para_id":"135.2211","title":"Chapter 36\u2014Danger in Speculative Knowledge","mp3":"\/mp3\/135\/0149_eng_m_chapter_36_danger_in_speculative_knowledge_135_2211.mp3#duration=1469&size=11880382"},{"para_id":"135.2287","title":"Chapter 37\u2014The False and the True in 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