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Medical Ministry
God the Physician’s Efficiency
The Lord is to be the efficiency of every physician. If in the
operating room the physician feels that he is working only as the
Lord’s visible helping hand, the Great Physician is present to hold
with His invisible hand the hand of the human agent and to guide
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in the movements made. The Lord knows with what trembling and
terror many patients come to the point of undergoing an operation
as the only chance for saving life. He knows that they are in greater
peril than they ever have been in before. They feel as if their life
were in the hands of one whom they believe to be a skillful physician.
But when they see their physician on his knees, asking God to make
the critical operations a success, the prayer inspires them, as well
as the physician, with strong hope and confidence. This confidence,
even in the most critical cases, is a means of making operations
successful. Impressions are made upon minds that God designed
should be made....
Although such a prayer may be offered before unbelievers and
even infidels, yet it sweeps away the shadow by which Satan has
darkened the mind, and when the sufferer is brought through the
crisis, truth takes the place of doubt and unbelief. The mist of
skepticism that beclouded the mind is dispelled.—
Manuscript 26,
1902.
The Peril of Popularity
Dr.-----has not been satisfied with a superficial education, but
has made the most of his opportunities to obtain a thorough knowl-
edge of the human system and the best methods of treating disease.
This has given him an influence. He has earned the respect of the
community as a man of sound judgment and nice discrimination,
one who reasons carefully from cause to effect; and he is highly
esteemed for his courtesy of deportment and his Christian integrity.
But there are others also who can become men of influence, trust,
and power in that institution....
November 23, 1879, some things were shown me in reference
to the institutions among us, and the duties and dangers of those
who occupy a leading position in connection with them. I saw that