Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

physical strength. If he is feeble, he cannot endure
the wearing labor incident to his calling. A man
who has a weak constitution, who is a dyspeptic, or
who has not perfect self-control, cannot become
qualified to deal with all classes of disease. Great
care should be taken not to encourage persons who
might be useful in some less responsible position,
to study medicine at a great outlay of time and
means, when there is no reasonable hope that they
will succeed.
Unfaithfulness and Infidelity
Some have been singled out as men who might
be useful as physicians, and they have been
encouraged to take a medical course. But some
who commenced their studies in the medical
colleges as Christians, did not keep the divine law
prominent; they sacrificed principle and lost their
hold on God. They felt that singlehanded they
could not keep the fourth commandment and meet
the jeers and ridicule of the ambitious, the worldloving,
the superficial, the skeptic, and the infidel.
This kind of persecution they were not prepared to
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