Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

[Testimonies for the Church 7:72-75 (1902).]
The Christian physician is to be to the sick a
messenger of mercy, bringing to them a remedy for
the sin-sick soul as well as for the diseased body.
As he uses the simple remedies that God has
provided for the relief of physical suffering, he is
to speak of Christ’s power to heal the maladies of
the soul.
How necessary that the physician live in close
communion with the Saviour! The sick and
suffering with whom he deals need the help that
Christ alone can give. They need prayers indited by
His Spirit. The afflicted one leaves himself to the
wisdom and mercy of the physician, whose skill
and faithfulness may be his only hope. Let the
physician, then, be a faithful steward of the grace
of God, a guardian of the soul as well as of the
body.
The physician who has received wisdom from
above, who knows that Christ is His personal
Saviour, because he has himself been led to the
Refuge, knows how to deal with the trembling,
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