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Counsels on Health
the souls and bodies of men and women. The Saviour is present in the
sickroom, in the operating room; and His power for His name’s glory
accomplishes great things.
The Physician Can Point to Jesus
The physician can do a noble work if he is connected with the
Great Physician. To the relatives of the sick, whose hearts are full of
sympathy for the sufferer, he may find opportunity to speak the words
of life; and he can soothe and uplift the mind of the sufferer by leading
him to look to the One who can save to the uttermost all who come to
Him for salvation.
When the Spirit of God works on the mind of the afflicted one,
leading him to inquire for truth, let the physician work for the precious
soul as Christ would work for it. Do not urge upon him any special
doctrine, but point him to Jesus as the sin-pardoning Saviour. Angels
of God will impress the mind. Some will refuse to be illuminated by
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the light which God would let shine into the chambers of the mind
and into the soul temple; but many will respond to the light, and from
these minds deception and error in their various forms will be swept
away.
Every opportunity of working as Christ worked should be carefully
improved. The physician should talk of the works of healing wrought
by Christ, of His tenderness and love. He should believe that Jesus
is his companion, close by his side. “We are laborers together with
God.”
1 Corinthians 3:9
. Never should the physician neglect to direct
the minds of his patients to Christ, the Chief Physician. If he has the
Saviour abiding in his own heart, his thoughts will ever be directed to
the Healer of soul and body. He will lead the minds of sufferers to Him
who can restore, who, when on earth, restored the sick to health and
healed the soul as well as the body, saying, “Son, thy sins be forgiven
thee.”
Mark 2:5
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Never should familiarity with suffering cause the physician to
become careless or unsympathetic. In cases of dangerous illness, the
afflicted one feels that he is at the mercy of the physician. He looks to
that physician as his only earthly hope, and the physician should ever
point the trembling soul to One who is greater than himself, even the
Son of God, who gave His life to save him from death, who pities the