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special field of labor, yet there are other places of importance that need
their influence. To physicians the instruction is given: Let your light
shine forth among men. Let every talent be used to meet unbelievers
with wise counsel and instruction. If our Christian physicians will
consider that there must be no daubing with untempered mortar and
will learn to handle wisely the subjects of Bible truth, seeking to
present its importance on every possible occasion, much prejudice will
be broken down and souls will be reached....
We are not to be an obscure church, but we are to let the light shine
forth, that the world may receive it. “I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and
joy in My people,” God declares through His servant Isaiah.
Isaiah
65:19
. These words will be proved true when those who are capable
of standing in positions of responsibility let the light shine forth. Our
leading physicians have a work to do outside the compass of our own
people. Their influence is not to be limited. Christ’s methods of labor
are to become their methods, and they are to learn to practice the teach-
ings of His word. Everyone who stands at the head of an institution is
under sacred obligation to God to show forth the light of present truth
in increasingly bright rays in every place where opportunity offers.
The workers in our sanitariums are not to think that the prosperity
of the institution depends upon the influence of the head physician
alone. There should be in every institution men and women who will
exert a righteous, refining influence, and who are capable of carrying
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responsibilities. The chief responsibilities should be shared by several
workers, in order that the leading physician may not be confined too
closely to his practice. He should be given opportunity to go where
there is need of words of counsel and encouragement to be spoken. As
a representative of the Chief Physician, now in the heavenly courts,
he is to speak to new congregations, to broaden his experience. He
needs to be constantly receiving new ideas, constantly imparting of
his store of knowledge, constantly receiving from the Source of all
wisdom. We need ever to keep ourselves in a position where we can
receive increased light, have new and deeper thoughts, and obtain
clearer views of the close relation that must exist between God and His
people. And we obtain these views and these ideas by association with
those to whom we are called to speak words of mercy and pardoning
grace.