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Medical Ministry
sick realize that, although unseen, Christ is present to bring relief
and healing.—
Letter 82, 1908
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To Awaken Faith in the Great Healer
As Christ’s followers, we are to work with all rational methods
to preach the gospel of present truth. Not only by words but by
deeds we are to give evidence that Christ is willing to unite with His
devoted ministers today in healing the sick and suffering. The Lord
would revive in the minds of His workers a living faith in His power.
When we increase in the faith of the gospel of Christ, and encourage
that faith as it is presented in the word of God, there will be in our
sanitariums not only a practical knowledge of how to treat the sick
upon right principles but the manifestation of a living faith in God
that will lead the workers to call upon the Great Physician for divine
assistance. And the Lord will come to the help of such in response
to their faith in His power.
Because we have sanitariums for the healing of the sick we are
not to cease to call upon the Great Healer. When we are urged to
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establish sanitariums, it is not that we may depend alone upon the
simple remedies used, but that we may point the afflicted ones to
the Mighty Healer of disease. We are to plead for His power to
work in harmony with our medical ministrations. The work of our
sanitariums would be far more successful if the physicians would
read the word more earnestly and put its precepts into practice, if
they would preach the kingdom of God and pray for the healing
grace of Christ to come upon the afflicted.
Let us present the gospel to the sick, connecting Jesus, the Great
Healer, with the simple remedies used; and our living faith will be
answered. But those who come to the Great Healer must be willing
to do His will, to humble their souls, and confess their sins. As we
lay hold of divine power with a faith that will not be denied, we shall
see the salvation of God.
Christ declared that He came to recover men’s lives. This work
is to be done by Christ’s followers, and it is to be done by the most
simple means. Families are to be taught how to care for the sick.
The hope of the gospel is to be revived in the hearts of men and
women. We must seek to draw them to the Great Healer. In the work