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Medical Ministry
least advantage over you. Let him not lead you to dare to endeavor to
control another mind until it becomes a machine in your hands. This
is the science of Satan’s working. Thus he works when he entices
men to sell the soul for liquor. He takes possession of body, mind,
and soul, and it is no longer the man, but Satan, who acts. And the
cruelty of Satan is expressed as the drunkard lifts his hand to strike
down the wife he has promised to love and cherish as long as life
shall last. The deeds of the drunkard are an expression of Satan’s
violence.
A Positive Peril
Now, my brother, I consider you to be in positive peril. I present
this because I know that you are in great danger of being seduced
by Satan. We are living in a time when every phase of fanaticism
will press its way in among believers and unbelievers. Satan will
come in, speaking lies in hypocrisy. Everything that he can invent to
deceive men and women will be brought forward.
Just in proportion as men lose their sense of the need of vital
religion, so they become filled with common, earthly ideas, which
they exalt as wonderful knowledge. Physicians who lose their hold
on Christ become filled with ideas of their own, which they look
upon as some wonderful science, to be brought into the medical
profession as something new and strange.
I have been awakened at the early hour of twelve to write out
these things. Let me tell you plainly that you are in an uncertain con-
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dition of mind, and that the efforts you put forth to rescue yourself
are in vain. No man can serve two masters. If you try to serve the
world and the Lord at the same time, the result will be that worldly
policy and worldly schemes will become supreme in your life. Why?
Because the word of God will become uncongenial; for the heart is
not committed to the molding and fashioning of the Holy Spirit. The
will is not given up to God, and therefore enmity to God is revealed.
The natural impulses of the heart, ministering to the natural man,
are chosen to control....
My brother, while you cherish your own suppositions as truth,
God cannot enlighten you. With your present phase of character,
you are not capable of understanding the best course to pursue in