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The Ministry of Health and Healing
be nothing to mar the loveliness, nothing to taint or destroy, nothing
to cause disease or death.
Let physicians and nurses draw lessons from nature that teach
about God. Let them point the patients to Him whose hand has made
the lofty trees, the grass, and the flowers. Encourage them to see in
every bud and flower an expression of God’s love for His children.
He who cares for the birds and the flowers will care for the beings
formed in His own image.
Out of doors, amid the things that God has made, breathing
fresh, health-giving air, the sick can best be told of the new life in
Christ. Here God’s Word can be read. Here the light of Christ’s
righteousness can shine into hearts darkened by sin.
Oh, could I find, from day to day,
A nearness to my God,
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Then would my hours glide sweet away,
While leaning on His word.
Lord, I desire with Thee to live
Anew from day to day,
In joys the world can never give,
Nor ever take away.
Blest Jesus, come, and rule my heart,
And make me wholly Thine,
That I may nevermore depart,
Nor grieve Thy love divine.
—Benjamin Cleveland.
Men and women who need physical and spiritual healing are
to be brought into contact with those whose words and acts will
draw them to Christ. They are to be brought under the influence
of the great Medical Missionary who can heal both soul and body.
They are to hear the story of the Savior’s love, of the pardon freely
provided for all who come to Him confessing their sins.
Under such influences as these, many suffering ones will be
guided into the way of life. Angels of heaven cooperate with human
instrumentalities in bringing encouragement and hope, joy and peace,
to the hearts of the sick and suffering. Under such conditions the sick