Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

words to speak readily, truthfully, to his patients,
that will cheer and bless them. His faith will be full
of simplicity, of childlike confidence in the Lord.
He will be able to repeat to the repenting soul the
gracious promises of God and thus place the
trembling hand of the afflicted ones in the hand of
Christ, that they may find repose in God.
Thus, through the grace imparted to him, the
physician will fulfill his heavenly Father’s claims
upon him. In delicate and perilous operations he
may know that Jesus is by his side to counsel, to
strengthen, to nerve him to act with precision and
skill in his efforts to save human life. If the
presence of God is not in the sickroom, Satan will
be there to suggest perilous experiments and will
seek to unbalance the nerves, so that life will be
destroyed rather than saved.
A physician occupies a more important
position, because of dealing with morbid souls,
diseased minds, and afflicted bodies, than does the
minister of the gospel. The physician can present
an elevated standard of Christian character, if he
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