Physicians and Evangelists
Encouraging Words to a Physician [
A circular letter (1910).
] The
work you have been doing in the cities is meeting Heaven’s approval.
What you have done demonstrates that if our physicians and our minis-
ters can work together in the presentation of truth to the people, more
can be reached than could be influenced by the minister laboring alone.
I trust that your example in this respect may be followed by other
physicians.
You need not feel that the Lord has separated you from the sanitar-
ium because you have made more direct efforts to reach the souls in
our cities, who need to be converted. You have a burden for this work
of presenting the message to the people. Present Christ as the healer of
the sin-sick soul. In your work in the field you will gain a broader and
more extended influence than if you were confined to an institution.
The acquaintances you make as you attend meetings and present
the truth from the physician’s standpoint will help to give you an
influence, and this line of work will be the means of bringing to our
sanitariums a class of people who can be greatly benefited. Arrange
your plans so that you can engage in this line of work with freedom,
and so that your absence will not hurt the work of the institution.
Present before the people the need of resisting the temptation to
indulge appetite. This is where many are failing. Explain how closely
body and mind are related and show the need of keeping both in the
very best condition. The health talks which you give in the meetings
will be one of the best ways of advertising our sanitariums.
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Christ has given us an example. He taught from the Scriptures
the gospel truths, and He also healed the afflicted ones who came to
Him for relief. He was the greatest physician the world ever knew, and
yet He combined with His healing work the imparting of soul-saving
truth.
And thus should our physicians labor. They are doing the Lord’s
work when they labor as evangelists, giving instruction as to how the
soul may be healed by the Lord Jesus. Every physician should know
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