Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

cross and follow in the path of self-denial, and yet
this must be done. God wants all to have His grace
and His Spirit to make fragrant their life. Some are
too independent, too self-sufficient, and do not
counsel with others as they should....
There must be, with all who have any influence
in the sanitarium, a conforming to God’s will, a
humiliation of self, an opening of the heart to the
precious influence of the Spirit of Christ. The gold
tried in the fire represents love and faith. Many are
nearly destitute of love. Self-sufficiency blinds
their eyes to their great need. There is a positive
necessity for a daily conversion to God, a new,
deep, and daily experience in the religious life.
There should be awakened in the hearts of the
physicians, especially, a most earnest desire to
have that wisdom which God alone can impart; for
as soon as they become self-confident they are left
to themselves, to follow the impulses of the
unsanctified heart. When I see what these
physicians may become, in connection with Christ,
and what they will fail to become if they do not
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