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and think of them and talk of them, until their usefulness seems to be
at an end. Many have passed into the grave when they might have
lived, and ought to have lived. Their imagination was diseased. Had
they resisted the disposition to yield to infirmities and be overcome
by them; had they summoned to their aid the powers of the will, they
might have lived to bless the world with their influence.—
The Health
Reformer, July, 1868
.
Deliverance From Sin and Healing Disease Linked—In the
ministry of healing, the physician is to be a co-worker with Christ. The
Saviour ministered to both the soul and the body. The gospel which
He taught was a message of spiritual life and of physical restoration.
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Deliverance from sin and the healing of disease were linked together.
The same ministry is committed to the Christian physician. He is to
unite with Christ in relieving both the physical and spiritual needs of
his fellowmen. He is to be to the sick a messenger of mercy, bringing
to them a remedy for the diseased body and for the sin-sick soul.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 111
(1905).
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