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Section 16—The Worker’s Health
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great Master Builder. They may cooperate with God, or they may
counterwork His plans by failing to work harmoniously with Him.
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Habits of Regularity Important
All physicians should place themselves under the control of the
Great Physician. Under His guidance they will do as they should
do. But the Lord will not work a miracle to save physicians who
recklessly abuse His building. As far as possible, physicians should
observe regularity in their habits of eating. They should take a proper
amount of exercise. They should be determined to cooperate with
the great Master Worker. God works, and man must come into line
and work with Him; for He is the Saviour of the body.
Physicians, above all others, need to realize the relation human
beings sustain to God in regard to the preservation of health and life.
They need to study the word of God diligently, lest they disregard
the laws of health. There is no need for them to become weak and
unbalanced. Under the guidance of the heavenly authority, they may
advance in clear, straight lines. But they must give the most earnest
heed to the laws of God. They should feel that they are the property
of God, that they have been bought with a price, and that therefore
they are to glorify Him in all things.—
Manuscript 24, 1900.
Faithful Guardians of Their Powers
Those who put their whole souls into the medical missionary
work, who labor untiringly in peril, in privation, in watchings oft,
in weariness and painfulness, are in danger of forgetting that they
must be faithful guardians of their own mental and physical powers.
They are not to allow themselves to be overtaxed. But they are filled
with zeal and earnestness, and they sometimes move unadvisedly,
putting themselves under too heavy a strain. Unless such workers
make a change, the result will be that sickness will come upon them
and they will break down.
While God’s workers are to be filled with a noble enthusiasm,
and with a determination to follow the example of the divine worker,
the great Medical Missionary, they are not to crowd too many things
into the day’s work. If they do, they will soon have to leave the