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be engaged in seeking their own pleasure, in frivolous conversation,
laughing and joking, and the mind continually elated with a round of
amusements; or they will be depressed, having great trials and mental
conflicts, which they think but few have ever experienced or can under-
stand. These persons may profess Christianity, but they deceive their
own souls. They have not the genuine article.—
The Health Reformer,
March, 1872
.
To Labor for Soul as Well as Body—Our medical workers are to
do all in their power to cure disease of the body and also disease of the
mind. They are to watch and pray and work, bringing spiritual as well
as physical advantages to those for whom they labor. The physician in
one of our sanitariums who is a true servant of God has an intensely
interesting work to do for every suffering human being with whom he
is brought in contact. He is to lose no opportunity to point souls to
Christ, the Great Healer of body and mind. Every physician should
be a skillful worker in Christ’s lines. There is to be no lessening of
the interest in spiritual things, else the power to fix the mind upon the
Great Physician will be diverted.—Lt 223, 1905.
The Physician Who Deals With Distracted Minds and
Hearts—The physician needs more than human wisdom and power
that he may know how to minister to the many perplexing cases of
disease of the mind and heart with which he is called to deal. If he is
ignorant of the power of divine grace, he cannot help the afflicted one,
but will aggravate the difficulty; but if he has a firm hold upon God, he
will be able to help the diseased, distracted mind. He will be able to
point his patients to Christ and teach them to carry all their cares and
perplexities to the great Burden Bearer.—
Testimonies for the Church
5:444
(1885).
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Christ Illumines the Mind—The physician is never to lead his
patients to fix their attention on him. He is to teach them to grasp with
the trembling hand of faith the outstretched hand of the Saviour. Then
the mind will be illuminated with the light radiating from the Light of
the world.—Lt 120, 1901.
Truth Has Soothing Power—The soothing power of pure truth
seen, acted, and maintained in all its bearings is of a value no language
can express to people who are suffering with disease. Keep ever before
the suffering sick the compassion and tenderness of Christ, and awaken
their conscience to a belief in His power to relieve suffering, and lead