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The Best Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
What the Physician Attempts, Christ Accomplishes . . . . . . . . 38
Education Better Than Miraculous Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
When Prayer for Healing Is Presumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Provision for Gospel Medical Missionary Work . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Miracles Not a Sure Evidence of God’s Favor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
When Christ Refused to Work Miracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Reformation to Precede Miracle Working . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Prayer for the Sick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
For Further Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Section 2—The Divine Plan in the Medical Missionary Work . . 44
The Majesty of Heaven as a Medical Missionary . . . . . . . . . . 44
A Servant of All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
An Expression of God’s Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Following in His Footsteps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
His Name to be Honored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Understood Through Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Follow the Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Time to Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The Purpose of Christ’s Humility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Disciples of Christ to Represent His Character . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
To Heights of Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Cleansed from Earthliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Source of Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Types of God’s Saving Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
The Highest Aim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Memorials for God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
To Reform Medical Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
An Honor to God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
To Lift Up Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Christ to Bring Relief and Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
To Awaken Faith in the Great Healer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
For Further Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Section 3—The Christian Physician and His Work . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Responsibility for Soul and Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
A Sad Mistake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Faithfulness and Perseverance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Bringing the Lord’s Work Into Disrepute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57