Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

to moisten this instruction with his tears and make
it strong with his prayers, that souls may be saved
from death.
In their earnest, feverish anxiety to avert the
peril of the body, physicians are in danger of
forgetting the peril of the soul. Physicians, be on
your guard, for at the judgment seat of Christ you
must meet those at whose deathbed you now stand.
The solemnity of the physician’s work, his
constant contact with the sick and the dying,
require that, so far as possible, he be removed from
the secular duties that others can perform. No
unnecessary burdens should be laid on him, that he
may have time to become acquainted with the
spiritual needs of his patients. His mind should be
ever under the influence of the Holy Spirit, that he
may be able to speak in season the words that will
awaken faith and hope.
At the bedside of the dying no word of creed or
controversy is to be spoken. The sufferer is to be
pointed to the One who is willing to save all who
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