The Great Physician And Healer
The cause of reform calls for men and women whose life practice is an illustration of self-control.The physician's work for them seems like effort thrown away.The physician is continually brought into contact with those who need the strength and encouragement of a right example.Of Christ it is written
, "He shall not fail nor be discouraged.His robes of character will be spotless.Above all other men should he, by prayer and the study of the Scriptures, place himself under the protecting shield of God.With the consciousness of his own indulgence before him, will he not hesitate to point out the plague spot in the life of his patient?But if he himself is a user of tobacco or intoxicants, what weight will be given to his words?Christ had the same experience, yet He did not cease His efforts for one suffering soul.Recklessness in physical habits tends to recklessness in morals.If the physician meets with no better success than the Saviour had, let him learn a lesson from the Chief Physician.Then it is that temptation has greatest power.The physician's only safety is, under all circumstances, to act from principle, strengthened and ennobled by a firmness of purpose found only in God.
The more urgent his duties and the greater his responsibilities, the greater the physician's need of divine power.The physician's example, no less than his teaching, should be a positive power on the right side.The physician who is true to his responsibility must point out to these patients the cause of their suffering.Such a life will be an element of strength in the community.They lack self-control and are easily overcome by temptation.No man can steadily maintain before his fellow men a pure, forceful life unless his life is hid with Christ in God.More than men in any other calling, is the physician in need of self-control, purity of spirit, and that faith which takes hold on heaven.The physician can help these souls only as he reveals in his own life a strength of principle that enables him to triumph over every injurious habit and defiling lust.For the sake of others and for his own sake, he cannot afford to disregard physical law.
It will purify every thought, regulate every desire.The physician who ministers in the homes of the people, watching at the bedside of the sick, relieving their distress, bringing them back from the borders of the grave, speaking hope to the dying, wins a place in their confidence and affection, such as is granted to few others.He is to live in hourly contact and conscious communion with the principles of truth, righteousness, and mercy that reveal God's attributes within the soul.While disordering his nerves and clouding his brain by the use of narcotic poisons, how can one be true to the trust reposed in him as a skillful physician?While using these things himself, how can he convince the youth of their injurious effects?The greater the activity among men, the closer must be the communion of the heart with heaven.The duties of the physician are arduous and trying.Such ones should have nothing in their surroundings to encourage a continuance of the thoughts and feelings that have made them what they are.He must resist an encroaching world, which would so press upon him as to separate him from the Source of strength.How terrible the responsibility when those who should give them a right example are themselves enthralled by hurtful habits, their influence affording to temptation an added strength!In order to perform them most successfully he needs to have a strong constitution and vigorous health.
Time must be redeemed from things temporal, for meditation upon things eternal.They are bruised and weak and wounded, feeling their folly and their inability to overcome.A man that is feeble or diseased cannot endure the wearing labor incident to the physician's calling.How impossible for him to discern quickly or to execute with precision!The bright and morning Star will appear shining steadfastly above him in changeless glory.It is our practice of the principles we inculcate that gives them weight.Many come under the physician's care who are ruining soul and body by the use of tobacco or intoxicating drink.As did Moses, he must endure "as seeing Him who is invisible.When man is in fellowship with God, that unswerving purpose which preserved Joseph and Daniel amidst the corruption of heathen courts will make his a life of unsullied purity.Of the ten lepers who were cleansed, only one appreciated the gift, and he was a stranger and a Samaritan.How can he minister acceptably at the bedside of the sick and the dying, when his very breath is offensive, laden with the odor of liquor or tobacco?With the same eagerness as before, they plunge again into the round of self-indulgence and folly.The affliction he beholds, the dependent mortals longing for help, his contact with the depraved, make the heart sick, and well-nigh destroy confidence in humanity.Many recover health, only to repeat the indulgences that invited disease.They will rise above all baser things into an atmosphere free from defilement.Not even to the minister of the gospel are committed possibilities so great or an influence so far-reaching.For the sake of that one, Christ healed the ten.There is nothing that the world needs so much as a knowledge of the gospel's saving power revealed in Christlike lives.How can a physician stand in the community as an example of purity and self-control, how can he be an effectual worker in the temperance cause, while he himself is indulging a vile habit?
If he fails here, however forcible or persuasive his words may be, his influence will tell for evil.Many seek medical advice and treatment who have become moral wrecks through their own wrong habits.Isaiah 42:4; 53: If but one soul would have accepted the gospel of His grace, Christ would, to save that one, have chosen His life of toil and humiliation and His death of shame.Day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, he is to live as in the sight of the unseen world.Those who make God's word their trust will quit themselves like men and be strong.It will be a barrier against evil, a safeguard to the tempted, a guiding light to those who, amidst difficulties and discouragements, are seeking the right way.If he does not observe the laws that govern his own being, if he chooses selfish gratification above soundness of mind and body, does he not thereby declare himself unfit to be entrusted with the responsibility of human lives?The world needs a practical demonstration of what the grace of God can do in restoring to human beings their lost kingship, giving them mastery of themselves.
He is to stand in the moral excellence of His character.Many are weak in moral power.In the battle with disease and death every energy is taxed to the limit of endurance.One who lacks perfect self-control cannot become qualified to deal with all classes of disease.If through our efforts one human being shall be uplifted and ennobled, fitted to shine in the courts of the Lord, have we not cause for rejoicing?He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied.They need to breathe an atmosphere of purity, of high and noble thought.Righteousness has its root in godliness.Often his work fails of accomplishing that which he longs to see accomplished.Often deprived of sleep, neglecting even to take food, cut off in great degree from social enjoyment and religious privileges, the physician's life seems to lie under a continual shadow.Though health is restored to his patients, it may be no real benefit to them or to the world.In his life the light of Christ will be undimmed.In his life must be seen the working of a power that is divine.Just to the degree in which the word of God is received and obeyed will it impress with its potency and touch with its life every spring of action, every phase of character.However skilled and faithful a physician may be, there is in his experience much of apparent discouragement and defeat.The reaction from this terrible strain tests the character to the utmost.
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