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Medical Ministry
Health and Joy in Field and Orchard
Our Redeemer is constantly working to restore in man the moral
image of God. And although the whole creation groans under the
curse, and fruit and flowers are nothing in comparison with what
they will be in the earth made new, yet even today the sick may find
health and gladness and joy in field and orchard. What a restorative
this is! What a preventive of sickness! The leaves of the tree of
life are for the healing of the believing, repenting children of God
who avail themselves of the blessing to be found in tree and shrub
and flower, even marred as nature is by the curse.—
Manuscript 41,
1902.
Awaken Faith in the Great Healer
The soothing power of pure truth seen, acted, and maintained in
all its bearings is of a value no language can express to people who
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are suffering with disease. Keep ever before the suffering sick the
compassion and tenderness of Christ, and awaken their conscience
to a belief in His power to relieve suffering, and lead them to faith
and trust in Him, the Great Healer, and you have gained a soul and
ofttimes a life.
Therefore personal religion for all physicians in the sickroom is
essential to success in giving the simple treatment without drugs. He
who is a physician and guardian of the health and body, God would
have in every way educated to learn lessons of the Great Teacher
how to work in Christ and through Christ to save the souls of the
sick. How can any physician know this until the Saviour shall be
received as a personal Saviour to him who administers to suffering
humanity?
Religion should be made prominent in a most tender, sympa-
thetic, compassionate way. No one of all the parties with whom he
is acquainted can do as much for the sick one as a truly converted
nurse and physician. Actions of purity and refinement in looks and
words, and above all the sweet words of prayer, though few, yet
if sincere, will be a sure anchor to the suffering ones.—
Letter 69,
1898
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