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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 8, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 24.

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A THOUGHT.

By H. C. Miller

It is written of Jesus that he went about all their cities and villages, healing the sick. We may learn much if we follow him in those journeys, and view his manner. How different from the self-styled great doctors of the world! No agent preceded him, to post up flaming posters and lying testimonials, announcing his coming, or his arrival, and telling of the wonderful works he performed. None of this; but quietly he went about seeking to do good to all who in faith applied to him. He sought no certificate from those he cured, certifying of his wonderful powers, that he might increase his fame; but we read that “great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; and charged them that they should not make him known.” Why? Was it to make a pretense of modesty that thus he might gain a greater popularity? No; but “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying: Behold my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. . . . He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.”
He practiced what he preached. He had taught that heed should be taken that alms be not done “to be seen of men,” saying, “When thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.” And when he had healed, he never afterwards boasted of his great work. Neither do we find him saying to those he healed, “Now I would like a certificate from you stating the facts in this case, and the remarkable cure I have effected.” But he charged them, “See thou tell no man; but go thy way, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.” Let us seek to imitate this, and give God all the glory in what we do, striving to fulfill the law and the prophets so far as it devolves upon us so to do.
H. C. MILLER.