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Section 3—The Christian Physician and His Work
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Temptation to Feel Self-sufficient
I wish to say that there is danger of our physicians’ taking them-
selves into their own hands, thinking that they understand best what
they should do. They think that those who offer them counsel do not
understand their capabilities or appreciate their value. This is the
stumbling stone over which some at least have fallen. You are not
beyond the temptation of thinking that you can do better work alone
than when linked up with your brethren. The very ones who think
this are the ones who need the companionship and help of a fellow
laborer.
My brother, the Lord needs your help in His work. Will you
not be His helping hand? It would be a serious mistake for you to
accept a worldly position, where it would not be possible for you to
do the medical missionary work that God desires you to do. Do not
make this mistake. Place yourself under the guidance of the greatest
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Medical Missionary the world has ever known. Under His direction
you will gain increased capabilities for doing His work.
The Lord’s people are to testify, by Christlike lives, that God has
a people on the earth who represent the pure and holy company that
will meet round the throne of God when the redeemed are gathered
into the Holy City. Those who on this earth love and obey God will
be accounted true and pure and loyal, worthy to dwell with Him in
the heavenly courts.—
Letter 41, 1903
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A Plea for Brotherly Union
To fear God and to walk with Him is the privilege and duty
of every physician. I have been shown that Satan presses in his
temptations with greater force upon physicians who are among our
people than upon those outside of our faith. It is Satan’s work
to excite pride and ambition, selfishness, and love for supremacy,
that he may prevent that strong, brotherly union which should exist
among our physicians, which would give vigor to their purposes and
would go far to ensure success in all their undertakings. In all our
institutions the physicians who believe the truth should strive for
harmony.