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The Ministry of Health and Healing
but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God.”
2
Corinthians 6:1-4
, KJV.
God’s purpose for us is that we shall ever move upward. The
true medical missionary physician will be an increasingly skillful
practitioner. Talented Christian physicians, having superior profes-
sional ability, should be encouraged to engage in the service of God
in places where they can educate and train others to become medical
missionaries.
Physicians should gather to their souls the light of the Word of
God. They should make continual growth in grace. With them,
religion is not to be merely one influence among others, it is to
be an influence dominating all others. They are to act from high,
holy motives—motives that are powerful because they proceed from
the One who gave His life to furnish us with power to overcome
evil. If physicians faithfully and diligently strive to make themselves
efficient in their profession, if they consecrate themselves to the
service of Christ and take time to search their own hearts, they
will understand how to grasp the mysteries of their sacred calling.
They may so discipline and educate themselves that all within the
sphere of their influence will see the excellence of the education
and wisdom gained by a person who is connected with the God of
wisdom and power.
In no place is a closer fellowship with Christ needed than in
the work of the physician. Anyone who would rightly perform the
physician’s duties must daily and hourly live a Christian life. The life
of the patient is in the hands of the physician. One careless diagnosis,
one wrong prescription, in a critical case, or one unskillful movement
of the hand during surgery, and a life may be sacrificed, a soul’s
probation ended. How solemn the thought! How important that the
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physician shall be ever under the control of the divine Physician!
The Savior is willing to help all who call upon Him for wisdom
and clearness of thought. And who needs wisdom and clearness
of thought more than does the physician, upon whose decisions so
much depends? Let the one who is trying to prolong life look in
faith to Christ to direct his or her every movement. The Savior will
give the necessary tact and skill in dealing with difficult cases.