Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

of heaven and earth at his command, and he can
work with a wisdom, an unerring precision, that the
godless man cannot possess.
Those to whom the care of the sick is entrusted,
whether as physicians or nurses, should remember
that their work must stand the scrutiny of the
piercing eye of Jehovah. There is no missionary
field more important than that occupied by the
faithful, God-fearing physician. There is no field
where a man may accomplish greater good or win
more jewels to shine in the crown of his rejoicing.
He may carry the grace of Christ, as a sweet
perfume, into all the sickrooms he enters; he may
carry the true healing balm to the sin-sick soul. He
can point the sick and dying to the Lamb of God
that taketh away the sin of the world. He should not
listen to the suggestion that it is dangerous to speak
of their eternal interests to those whose lives are in
peril, lest it should make them worse, for in nine
cases out of ten the knowledge of a sin-pardoning
Saviour would make them better both in mind and
body. Jesus can limit the power of Satan. He is the
physician in whom the sin-sick soul may trust to
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