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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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When the crisis has passed and success is<br />

apparent, be the patient a believer or an unbeliever,<br />

let a few moments be spent with him in prayer.<br />

Give expressi<strong>on</strong> to your thankfulness for the life<br />

that has been spared. The physician who follows<br />

such a course carries his patient to the One up<strong>on</strong><br />

whom he is dependent for life. Words of gratitude<br />

may flow from the patient to the physician, for<br />

through God he has bound this life up with his<br />

own; but let the praise and thanksgiving be given to<br />

God, as to One who is present though invisible.<br />

On the sickbed Christ is often accepted and<br />

c<strong>on</strong>fessed; and this will be d<strong>on</strong>e oftener in the<br />

future than it has been in the past, for a quick work<br />

will the Lord do in our world. Words of wisdom<br />

are to be <strong>on</strong> the lips of the physician, and Christ<br />

will water the seed sown, causing it to bring forth<br />

fruit unto eternal life.<br />

A Word in Seas<strong>on</strong><br />

We lose the most precious opportunities by<br />

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