Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

He will be able to point his patients to Christ and
teach them to carry all their cares and perplexities
to the great Burden Bearer.
There is a divinely appointed connection
between sin and disease. No physician can practice
for a month without seeing this illustrated. He may
ignore the fact; his mind may be so occupied with
other matters that his attention will not be called to
it; but if he will be observing and honest, he cannot
help acknowledging that sin and disease bear to
each other the relationship of cause and effect. The
physician should be quick to see this and to act
accordingly. When he has gained the confidence of
the afflicted by relieving their sufferings and
bringing them back from the verge of the grave, he
may teach them that disease is the result of sin, and
that it is the fallen foe who seeks to allure them to
health-and-soul-destroying practices. He may
impress their minds with the necessity of denying
self and obeying the laws of life and health. In the
minds of the young especially he may instill right
principles. God loves His creatures with a love that
is both tender and strong. He has established the
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