Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

will conduct themselves as sons of God. They will
realize that they are engaged to work in the same
vineyard, and selfish barriers will be broken down.
For each other they will feel a deep interest,
untainted with selfishness. He who is himself a
reformer can accomplish good in seeking to reform
others. By precept and example he can be a savor
of life unto life. Would that the curtain could be
rolled back, and we could see how interestedly the
angels of God are looking upon the institutions for
the treatment of the sick. The work in which the
physician is engaged—standing between the living
and the dead—is of special importance.
God has given a great work into the hand of
physicians. The afflicted children of men are in a
degree at their mercy. How the patient watches him
who cares for his physical welfare. The actions and
words, the very expressions of the physician’s
countenance, are matters of study. What gratitude
springs up in the heart of the suffering one when
his pain is relieved through the efforts of his
faithful physician. The patient feels that his life is
in the hands of him who thus ministers to him, and
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