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the scrutiny of the piercing eye of Jehovah. There is no missionary
field more important than that occupied by the faithful, God-fearing
physician. There is no field where a man may accomplish greater good
or win more jewels to shine in the crown of his rejoicing. He may
carry the grace of Christ, as a sweet perfume, into all the sickrooms he
enters; he may carry the true healing balm to the sin-sick soul. He can
point the sick and dying to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin
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of the world. He should not listen to the suggestion that it is dangerous
to speak of their eternal interests to those whose lives are in peril, lest
it should make them worse; for in nine cases out of ten the knowledge
of a sin-pardoning Saviour would make them better both in mind and
body. Jesus can limit the power of Satan. He is the physician in whom
the sin-sick soul may trust to heal the maladies of the body as well as
of the soul.
The superficial and the evil-minded in the profession will seek to
arouse prejudice against the man who faithfully discharges the duties
of his profession, and to strew his path with obstacles; but these trials
will only reveal the pure gold of character. Christ will be his refuge
from the strife of tongues. Though his life may be hard and self-
denying, and in the estimation of the world may be a failure, in the
sight of heaven it will be a success, and he will be ranked as one of
God’s noblemen. “They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of
the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars
for ever and ever.”
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