Christ Calls for Tenderness and Compassion—True sympathy between man and his fellowman is to be the sign distinguishing those who love and fear God from those who are unmindful of His law. How great the sympathy that Christ expressed in coming to this world to give His life a sacrifice for a dying world! His religion led to the doing of genuine medical missionary work. He was a healing power. “I will have mercy, and not sacrifice,” He said. This is the test that the Great Author of truth used to distinguish between true religion and false. God wants His medical missionaries to act with the tenderness and compassion that Christ would show were He in our world.— The Medical Missionary, August 1, 1893. (Medical Ministry, 251.) {1MCP 85.1}

Kristus kalder på ømhed og medfølelse. - Sand sympati mellem mennesket og hans medmennesker skal være skillemærket mellem dem der elsker og frygter Gud, fra dem som ikke har Hans lov i tanke. Hvor stor forståelse var der da Kristus fortalte om sin ankomst til denne verden, gav Sit liv, som et offer for en døende verden! Hans religion førte til at gøre det ægte sundhedsmissionsarbejde. Han var en helbredende kraft. "Jeg vil have barmhjertighed, ikke slagtoffer," sagde Han. Dette var den prøve som sandhedens Store Ophav brugte for at skelne mellem sand religion og falsk. Gud ønsker at Hans sundhedsmissionærer handler med den ømhed og medfølelse som Kristus viste, da Han var i vor verden. - SpT MM 8, 1893. (MM 251.)