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Medical Ministry
strength you may use to produce a precious harvest.—
Letter 228,
1903
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To a Physician in Perplexity
I have wished so much that I might have an opportunity to talk
with you. Could I see you, I should say to you what I have been
saying to you recently in the visions of the night. You were ap-
parently undecided as to what you would do in the future. I asked,
“Why are you perplexed?” You replied, “I am perplexed in regard
to what is the best course for me to pursue.” Then One who has
authority stepped up to you and said: “You are not your own. You
have been bought with a price. Your time, your talents, every jot of
your influence, is the Lord’s. You are His servant. Your part is to do
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His bidding, and learn daily of Him. You are not to set up in business
for yourself. This is not the Lord’s plan. You are not to unite with
unbelievers in medical work. Neither is this the Lord’s plan. His
word to you is, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbeliev-
ers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord
hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an
infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for
ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in
them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be
My people.” ...
You are to receive the grace of Christ, the great Medical Mis-
sionary. His divine wisdom will be given to you if you will refuse
to yield to the inclination to link up with the world. God desires
you to place yourself where you can work in connection with other
physicians. You and the one with whom you are associated may not
be of the same temperament. It is better if you are not. That which
one needs the other may supply, if each will learn to wear the yoke
of Christ....
My brother, choose to obey Christ. In His meekness and low-
liness, receive His counsel. Stand shoulder to shoulder with your
brethren, and this will encourage them to stand shoulder to shoulder
with you. Hide self in Christ, and the Saviour will be to you a present
help in every time of need.