Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Our leading physicians have a work to do outside
the compass of our own people. Their influence is
not to be limited. Christ’s methods of labor are to
become their methods, and they are to learn to
practice the teachings of His word. Everyone who
stands at the head of an institution is under sacred
obligation to God to show forth the light of present
truth in increasingly bright rays in every place
where opportunity offers.
The workers in our sanitariums are not to think
that the prosperity of the institution depends upon
the influence of the head physician alone. There
should be in every institution men and women who
will exert a righteous, refining influence, and who
are capable of carrying responsibilities. The chief
responsibilities should be shared by several
workers, in order that the leading physician may
not be confined too closely to his practice. He
should be given opportunity to go where there is
need of words of counsel and encouragement to be
spoken. As a representative of the Chief Physician,
now in the heavenly courts, he is to speak to new
congregations, to broaden his experience. He needs
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