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Medical Ministry
There should be no rivalry. Variance and rivalry are even more
offensive to God when manifest among physicians than among those
who claim to be called to the ministry; for the godly physician is
Christ’s ambassador to hold forth the word of life to suffering ones
who are letting go their hold of this life. If he has wisdom to speak
a word in season, leading the sufferer to rely upon Jesus, he may be
the instrument in the hands of God of the saving of the soul. How
firmly garrisoned should be the soul of the physician, that impure,
sensual thoughts may not find a lodgment there.
I have been shown that much is lost when the physicians of
our faith draw apart because of their different methods of practice.
Physicians’ meetings should be held, where all might counsel to-
gether, exchanging ideas and laying plans whereby they could work
unitedly. The Lord formed man for companionship, and He designs
that we shall be imbued with the kind, loving nature of Christ, and
shall, through association, be bound together in close relationship as
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children of God, doing work for time and for eternity....
Physicians to Counsel Together
In the love and fear of God, let the physicians have meetings for
counsel, and talk up the best ways and means of serving the Lord
in their branch of His great work. Let them bring together all their
intelligence and skill, that they may be a help to one another. I know
that there are ways by which they can come into harmony so that no
one shall follow his own independent judgment.—
Letter 26a, 1889
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A Student of Cause and Effect
The intelligent Christian physician has an increasing knowledge
of the connection between sin and disease. He is constantly striving
to perfect his knowledge of the relation between cause and effect.
He sees the necessity of educating those who are taking the nurse’s
course to be strictly temperate in all things, because carelessness
in regard to the laws of health, a neglect to properly care for the
body, is the cause of much of the disease on our world. A failure to
care for the living machinery is an insult to the Creator. There are