Physician’s Work for Souls
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you see a soul in need of help, engage in conversation with him even
though you do not know him. Pray with him. Point him to Jesus.
This work belongs just as surely to the doctor as to the minister.
By public and private effort the physician should seek to win souls to
Christ.
In all our enterprises and in all our institutions God is to be ac-
knowledged as the Master Worker. The physicians are to stand as His
representatives. The medical fraternity have made many reforms, and
they are still to advance. Those who hold the lives of human beings in
their hands should be educated, refined, sanctified. Then will the Lord
work through them in mighty power to glorify His name.
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Christ’s work for the paralytic is an illustration of the way we are to
work. Through his friends this man had heard of Jesus and requested
to be brought into the presence of the mighty Healer. The Saviour
knew that the paralytic had been tortured by the suggestions of the
priests that because of his sins God had cast him off. Therefore His
first work was to give him peace of mind. “Son,” He said, “thy sins
be forgiven thee.” This assurance filled his heart with peace and joy.
But some who were present began to murmur, saying in their hearts,
“Who can forgive sins but God only?” Then that they might know that
the Son of man had power to forgive sins, Christ said to the sick man:
“Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.” This
shows how the Saviour bound together the work of preaching the truth
and healing the sick.
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