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Section 3—The Christian Physician and His Work
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A Sad Mistake
What an opportunity the consecrated physician has to show a
Christlike interest in the patients under his care! It is his privilege to
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speak encouragingly to them, and bow at their bedside to offer a few
words of prayer. To stand by the sickbed and have nothing to say, is
a sad mistake. Let the physician make his mind a storehouse, full
of fresh thoughts. Let him learn to repeat the comforting words that
Christ spoke during His earthly ministry when giving His lessons
and healing the sick. Let him speak words of hope and confidence
in God. A genuine interest will be manifested. The precious words
of Scripture that the Holy Spirit fixes in the memory will win hearts
to Jesus, their Saviour.—
Letter 20, 1902
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Faithfulness and Perseverance
Physicians are to reveal the attributes of Christ, steadfastly per-
severing in the work God has given them to do. To those who do
this work in faithfulness, angels are commissioned to give enlarged
views of the character and work of Christ, and His power and grace
and love. Thus they become partakers of His image, and day by
day grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ. It is
the privilege of the children of God to have a constantly enlarging
comprehension of the truth, that they may bring love for God and
heaven into the work and draw from others praise and thanksgiving
to God because of the richness of His grace....
Physicians must stand firmly under the banner of the third an-
gel’s message, fighting the good fight of faith perseveringly and
successfully, relying not on their own wisdom, but on the wisdom of
God, putting on the heavenly armor, the equipment of God’s word,
never forgetting that they have a Leader who never has been, and
never can be, overcome by evil.—
Manuscript 24, 1900.
Bringing the Lord’s Work Into Disrepute
Never is a physician to do his work in a coarse, careless, or
haphazard way. The physician is constantly to study refinement. In
every sense of the word, he is to be one that ministers—a servant
entrusted by an absent Lord with the care of his fellow beings. The