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Medical Ministry
done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it
unto Me.’
Matthew 25:40
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“Let those whose lips are unsanctified realize that for their own
souls’ interests they should now be converted in order that their
words may be a savor of life unto life, and not of death unto death. It
is time that the vain talkers reformed. Let each one begin to reform,
and build over against his own house. Let every church member
lighten the burdens and encourage the hearts of his brethren by
holding up their hands and strengthening them to do God’s will.”—
Series B, No. 5, pages 23-25.
Experience and Wisdom Needed
Plenty of physicians can be obtained who ceased to be students
when they received their diplomas, who are self-inflated, who feel
that they know all that is worth knowing, and what they do not know
is not worth knowing. But this class are not the ones we want. When
a physician enters upon his work as practitioner, the more genuine,
practical experience he has, the more fully will he feel his want of
knowledge.
If self-sufficient, he will read articles written in regard to diseases
and how to treat them without nature’s aid; he will grasp statements
and weave them into his practice, and without deep research, without
earnest study, without sifting every statement, he will merely become
a mechanical worker. Because he knows so little, he will be ready
to experiment upon human lives, and sacrifice not a few. This is
murder, actual murder. He did not do this work with evil design, he
had no malicious purposes; but life was sacrificed on account of his
ignorance, because he was a superficial student, because he had not
had that practice that would make him a safe man to be entrusted
with human lives. It requires care-taking, deep, earnest taxation of
the mind, to carry the burden a physician should carry in learning
his trade thoroughly.
Every physician who has received a thorough education will be
very modest in his claims. It will not do for him to run any risk in
experimenting on human life, lest he be guilty of murder and this
be written against him in the books of heaven. There should be a
careful, competent physician who will deal scarcely ever in drugs,