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Counsels on Health
how to treat the sick and suffering. If this had been felt as an important
branch of education in the missionary line of labor, many who have
lost their lives might have lived. Had they understood how to treat the
ailments of the body, and how to study from cause to effect, they could,
through their intelligent knowledge of the human body and how to
treat its maladies, have reached many darkened minds that otherwise
they could not approach.
The Great Physician With Every Worker
The great Physician in Chief is at the side of every true, earnest,
God-fearing practitioner who works with his acquired knowledge to
relieve the sufferings of the human body. He, the Chief of physicians,
is ready to dispense the balm of Gilead. He will hear the prayers of-
fered by the physician and the missionary, if His name will be glorified
thereby; and the life of the suffering patient will be prolonged. God
is over all. He is the true Head of the missionary of the medical pro-
fession, and blessed indeed shall be that physician who has connected
himself with the Chief Physician, who has learned from Him not only
to treat the suffering bodies, but to watch for souls, to understand how
to apply the prescription, and as an undershepherd use the balm of
Gilead to heal the bruises that sin has made upon the souls as well
as upon the bodies of suffering humanity under the serpent’s sting.
Oh, how essential that the physician be one divested of selfishness,
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one who has a correct knowledge of the atonement made by Jesus
Christ, so that he can uplift Jesus to the despairing soul, one who holds
communion with God! What a treasure he possesses in his knowledge
of the treatment of the diseases of the body, and also the knowledge
of the plan of salvation. Resting in Jesus as his personal Saviour, he
can lead others to hopefulness, to saving faith, to rest and peace, and a
new life in Jesus Christ....
The Lord sanctions the efforts of the consecrated worker, the true
shepherd. He may have little time to preach discourses, but he can act
sermons which will be far more powerful. The truth expressed in living,
unselfish deeds is the strongest argument for Christianity. The relieving
of the sick, the helping of the distressed, is working in Christ’s lines
and demonstrates most powerful gospel truths representing Christ’s
mission and work upon earth. The knowledge of the art of relieving