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Counsels on Health
Countless are the opportunities of the physician for warning the
impenitent, cheering the disconsolate and hopeless, and prescribing
for the health of mind and body. As he thus instructs the people in the
principles of true temperance, and as a guardian of souls gives advice
to those who are mentally and physically diseased, the physician is
acting his part in the great work of making ready a people prepared
for the Lord. This is what medical missionary work is to accomplish
in its relation to the third angel’s message.
Ministers and physicians are to work harmoniously with earnest-
ness to save souls that are becoming entangled in Satan’s snares.
They are to point men and women to Jesus, their righteousness, their
strength, and the health of their countenance. Continually they are
to watch for souls. There are those who are struggling with strong
temptations, in danger of being overcome in the fight with satanic
agencies. Will you pass these by without offering them assistance? If
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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