The messengers of the called out church, not medical people as such, have been the first to go into all parts of the earth with the science of sanitation, nutrition, and physical healing. The first Sunday Schools were established, not simply to teach Bible stories to youngsters, but to offer what was then the only opportunity for them to learn to read and write. Public education in America grew out of the selfless work of the church. Not social reformers but the messengers of the called out church have taken the lead in the fight against poverty, famine, and plague. The church has elevated the status of women, created new conditions for childhood, established orphanages, day care centers, asylums, homes for the aged and others who need help.
History offers no parallel to the unselfish and uplifting work of the called out church.
There is no question that what goes on in parliaments and congresses, in council halls and chambers of commerce, and in the highest courts of the nations is always of importance to humanity. But when the world is out of joint, when people's minds are disordered and their hearts are failing them for fear, then the thing of supreme importance is the living church, with all of her sanctuaries of worship and her avenues of service, where men and women come to have their faith strengthened, their thoughts clarified, their ideas uplifted, their convictions born, and their characters created. The called out church, for all her faults, is the institution of supreme significance and value in the world through the ages. For all the good works the church has offered, those pale by comparison to the one thing that the church uniquely did and continues to do - it has introduced the world to Jesus Christ. We know Christ because the called out church brought us to him.