The Physician’s Work for Souls
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Testimonies for the Church 6:229-234
(1900).]
Every medical practitioner may through faith in Christ have in
his possession a cure of the highest value—a remedy for the sin-sick
soul. The physician who is converted and sanctified through the truth
is registered in heaven as a laborer together with God, a follower of
Jesus Christ. Through the sanctification of the truth, God gives to
physicians and nurses wisdom and skill in treating the sick, and this
work is opening the fast-closed door to many hearts. Men and women
are led to understand the truth which is needed to save the soul as well
as the body.
This is an element that gives character to the work for this time.
The medical missionary work is as the right arm of the third angel’s
message which must be proclaimed to a fallen world; and physicians,
managers, and workers in any line, in acting faithfully their part, are
doing the work of the message. Thus the sound of the truth will
go forth to every nation and kindred and tongue and people. In this
work the heavenly angels bear a part. They awaken spiritual joy and
melody in the hearts of those who have been freed from suffering, and
thanksgiving to God arises from the lips of many who have received
the precious truth.
Every physician in our ranks should be a Christian. Only those
physicians who are genuine Bible Christians can discharge aright the
high duties of their profession.
The physician who understands the responsibility and accountabil-
ity of his position will feel the necessity of Christ’s presence with him
in his work for those for whom such a sacrifice has been made. He
will subordinate everything to the higher interests which concern the
life that may be saved unto life eternal. He will do all in his power to
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save both the body and the soul. He will try to do the very work that
Christ would do were He in his place. The physician who loves Christ
and the souls for whom Christ died will seek earnestly to bring into
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