Missionary Physician
215
1112. All who engage in the acquisition of knowledge should aim
to reach the highest round of progress. Let them advance as fast and as
far as they can; let their field of study be as broad as their powers can
compass, making God their wisdom; clinging to him who is infinite
in knowledge, who can reveal the secrets hidden for ages, who can
solve the most difficult problems for minds that believe in him who
only hath immortality, dwelling in the light that no man can approach
unto.... The same principles run through the spiritual and the natural
worlds.—
Special Testimonies On Education, 216
.
The Physician’s Relation to the Laws of Health
1113. It is wilful sin in them to be ignorant of the laws of health
or indifferent to them; for they are looked up to as wise above other
men.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:441
.
1114. If they do not put to a practical use the knowledge they
have of the laws that govern their own being, if they prefer present
gratification to soundness of mind and body, they are not fit to be
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intrusted with the lives of others.—
Ibid., 198
.
1115. He [the physician] is expected to indulge in no habit that
will weaken the life forces.—
Ibid., 197
.
1116. The physicians in our institutions must be imbued with
the living principles of health reform. Men will never be truly tem-
perate until the grace of Christ is an abiding principle in the heart.—
Unpublished Testimonies, October 12, 1896
.
1117. Men are wanted at the Institute who will have the fear of
God before them, who can minister to sick minds, and keep prominent
the health reform from a religious standpoint.—
Testimonies for the
Church 3:168
.
1118. If a man who assumes so grave a responsibility as that of a
physician, sins against himself in not conforming to nature’s laws, he
will reap the consequences of his own doings, and abide her righteous
decision, from which there can be no appeal.... His capabilities for
doing good are lessened. He will lead others in the path his own feet
are traveling. Hundreds will follow the example of one intemperate
physician, feeling that they are safe in doing what the doctor does.
And in the day of God he will meet the record of his own course, and
be called to give an account for all the good he might have done, but