Counsel to Physicians and Nurses
[
Letters from Ellen G. White to Sanitarium Workers, 16-23
(1900).]
The Lord has instructed me to present the following scriptures
to our physicians: “Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and
exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye
ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more....
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification.”
1 Thessalonians
4:1-3
. “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as
ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware
lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
Colossians 2:6-8
.
Physicians are placed where peculiar temptations will come to
them. If they are not prepared to withstand temptations by the practice
of the principles of truth, they will fall when Satan tempts them. There
are ministers of the gospel who are too weak to resist temptation.
They may have long preached the gospel, and with marked success;
they may have won the confidence of the people, but when they think
they are strong, they show that they cannot stand alone without being
overcome. Unless they govern their habits and passions, unless they
keep close to the side of Christ, they will lose eternal life. If ministers
are in such danger, physicians are even more so.
The perils of physicians have been opened before me. The physi-
cians in our sanitariums must not allow themselves to think that they
are in no danger. They are in positive danger; but they may avoid the
perils which surround them if they walk humbly with God, taking heed
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not to be presumptuous. “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall.”
1 Corinthians 10:12
. A power higher and stronger than
human power must hold the fort in our medical institutions.
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