Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

the physician or the nurse can then easily approach
him on religious subjects. If the sufferer is under
the control of divine influences, how gently can the
Christian physician or nurse drop the precious
seeds of truth into the garden of the heart. He can
bring the promise of God before the soul of the
helpless one. If the physician has religion, he can
impart the fragrance of heavenly grace to the
softened and subdued heart of the suffering one. He
can direct the thoughts of his patient to the Great
Physician. He can present Jesus to the sin-sick
soul.
How often the physician is made a confidant,
and griefs and trials are laid open before him by the
sick. At such a time what precious opportunities
are afforded to speak words of comfort and
consolation in the fear and love of God, and to
impart Christian counsel. Deep love for souls for
whom Christ died should imbue the physician. In
the fear of God I tell you that none but a Christian
physician can rightly discharge the duties of this
sacred profession.
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