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Counsels on Health
how to pray in faith for the sick, as well as to administer the proper
treatment. At the same time he should labor as one of God’s ministers,
to teach repentance and conversion and the salvation of soul and body.
Such a combination of labor will broaden his experience and greatly
enlarge his influence.
In Touch With the People
One thing I know: the greatest work of our physicians is to get
access to the people of the world in the right way. There is a world
perishing in sin, and who will take up the work in our cities? The
greatest physician is the one who walks in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
There is a work to be done in all our cities, and those who still
work and walk humbly with God, striving daily to be overcomers, will
gain precious victories day by day. The work that is done in humility
will bear the divine credentials. Let us hide in God. That which I
see most clearly is the necessity of men and women’s being united in
doing the work that needs to be done in our cities.... The Lord bears
long with men, and He calls earnestly for everyone to repent. Will the
ministers, will the physicians, take up this work that has scarcely been
touched? May God help us to be faithful and to do the very work that
is now most essential.
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Now is our time to make decided efforts to awaken the people who
have never yet been warned. Much thought and labor is given to the
printed page. This is well, but if more efforts were given to sending
forth the living missionary to preach the truth, many more souls would
be aroused and won to the truth. While Jesus ministers in the true
sanctuary above, He is through His Holy Spirit working through His
earthly messengers. These agencies will accomplish more than the
printed page, if they will go forth in the Spirit and power of Christ.
Christ will work through His chosen ministers, filling them with His
Spirit, and thus fulfilling to them the assurance, “Lo, I am with you
alway, even unto the end of the world.”
Matthew 28:20
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It is well, in presenting the truth to unbelievers, first to present
some subjects upon which they will agree with us. The principles of
health and temperance will appeal to their judgment, and we can from
these subjects lead them on to understand the binding claims of the
fourth commandment. This work our physicians can help in doing.