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Medical Ministry
False Ideas of Etiquette
There are false ideas of consistency and etiquette, which lead to
neglect of sacred duties. Worldly etiquette, which stands in the way
of saving men’s souls by lifting up Jesus before them, and of seeking
to do them good, is to be discarded. It should be our constant study
how we may best follow the example of Christ and promote His
glory. Connection with God is everything. What physicians aim to
do, Christ accomplished in the fullest sense. The physician labors
with zeal to prolong life. Christ is the Giver of life.
Who has endowed the physician with reason and intelligence?
He who is the truth and the life. He applies the balm of Gilead. He
is the great Restorer. He is the one who has repeatedly vanquished
death, and who grants eternal life—God over all. If the physician
has learned in the school of Christ, he will, while ministering to the
diseased bodies, watch for souls as one that must give an account.
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The Unseen Witness
Christian physicians need to pray—to watch unto prayer. Before
them is opened a door for many temptations, and they need to be
awakened to a lively sense that there is a Watcher by their side, as
surely as there was a Watcher at that sacrilegious feast of Belshazzar,
when men praised the gods of silver and gold and drank from the
sacred vessels of the temple of God. When men take honor to
themselves, they are dishonoring God.
Whenever one by any action leads men to be forgetful of God,
or to neglect the plain injunctions of His word, the unseen Witness
testifies, as in the writing on the walls of the palace, “Thou art
weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”
Daniel 5:27
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Manuscript 17, 1890.
Establishment of New Sanitariums
This morning I am writing before anyone else is astir. I am
receiving letters from persons inquiring whether I have any light in
regard to the establishment of new sanitariums.
For what purpose are our sanitariums established? How shall we
relate ourselves to them?