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Medical Ministry
The Duty of Truthfulness
Never, never should the physician feel that he may prevaricate.
It is not always safe and best to lay before the invalid the full extent
of his danger. The truth may not all be spoken on all occasions, but
never speak a lie. If it is important for the good of the invalid not to
alarm him lest such a course might prove fatal, do not lie to him....
Religious faith and principles have become deteriorated, mingled
with worldly customs and practices, and for this reason pure and
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undefiled religion is rare. The soul, the precious soul, is of value,
and it must be made white in the blood of the Lamb. The strength
and grace of God was provided at an infinite sacrifice that you might
be victorious over Satan’s suggestions and temptations and come
forth unsullied and unpolluted as did Joseph and Daniel. Let the life,
the character, be the strongest argument for Christianity, for by this
will all men be compelled to take knowledge of you that you have
been with Jesus and learned of Him. The life, the words, and the
deportment are the most forcible argument, the most solemn appeal,
to the careless, irreverent, and skeptical....
You all need a living religion, that you may stand as God’s
witnesses, proclaiming to the sick that sin is always followed with
suffering; and while combating pain and disease, you should plainly
lay before them that which you know to be the real cause, and
the remedy—“Cease to sin;” and point them to the sin-pardoning
Saviour.—
Manuscript 4a, 1885.
Leading Souls to the Mighty Healer
In no other line of the work is the truth to shine more brightly
than in the medical missionary work. Every true medical missionary
has a remedy for the sin-sick soul as well as for the diseased body.
By faith in Christ he is to act as an evangelist, a messenger of mercy.
As he uses the simple remedies which God has provided for the cure
of physical suffering, he is to speak of Christ’s power to heal the
maladies of the soul.
Through the efforts of the Christian physician, the accumulated
light of the past and the present is to produce its effect. Not only is
the physician to give instruction from the word of God, line upon