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Section 7—Fees and Wages
Exorbitant Fees
Traditions and customs have become so interwoven with the
belief of the medical profession that physicians need to be taught the
very first principles of the way of the Lord. The physician ministers
to the body in healing, yet all the work is the Lord’s. He must
cooperate with the physicians, else there cannot be success.
Please read carefully the fifteenth chapter of Exodus. The Lord
gave Moses a message of encouragement for the children of Israel.
They did not deserve the good He had done and was doing for them,
yet He made a covenant of mercy with them, saying, “If thou wilt
diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that
which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments,
and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord
that healeth thee.” Read also the seventh, eighth, and twenty-eighth
chapters of Deuteronomy.
God’s Lesson For Israel
The Lord had a lesson to teach the children of Israel. The waters
of Marah were an object lesson, representing the diseases brought
upon human beings because of sin. It is no mystery that the inhabi-
tants of the earth are suffering from disease of every stripe and type.
It is because they transgress the law of God. Thus did the children
of Israel. They broke down the barriers which God in His provi-
dence had erected to preserve them from disease, that they might
live in health and holiness and so learn obedience in their journeying
through the wilderness. They journeyed under the special direction
of Christ, who had given Himself as a sacrifice to preserve a people
who would ever keep God in their remembrance, notwithstanding
Satan’s masterly temptations. Enshrouded in the pillar of cloud, it
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