Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

duty to discipline the mind to dwell upon cheerful subjects, that they may reflect light
rather than darkness and gloom. This class of minds will either be engaged in seeking
their own pleasure, in frivolous conversation, laughing and joking, and the mind
continually elated with a round of amusements; or they will be depressed, having great
trials and mental conflicts, which they think but few have ever experienced or can
understand. These persons may profess Christianity, but they deceive their own souls.
They have not the genuine article.--HR, Mar, 1872. {2MCP 407.5}
To Labor for Soul as Well as Body.--Our medical workers are to do all in their
power to cure disease of the body and also disease of the mind. They are to watch and
pray and work, bringing spiritual as well as physical advantages to those for whom they
labor. The physician in one of our sanitariums who is a true servant of God has an
intensely interesting work to do for every suffering human being with whom he is
brought in contact. He is to lose no opportunity to point souls to Christ, the Great Healer
of body and mind. Every physician should be a skillful worker in Christ's lines. There is
to be no lessening of the interest in spiritual things, else the power to fix the mind upon
the Great Physician will be diverted.--Lt 223, 1905. {2MCP 408.1}
The Physician Who Deals With Distracted Minds and Hearts.--The physician
needs more than human wisdom and power that he may know how to minister to the
many perplexing cases of disease of the mind and heart with which he is called to deal.
If he is ignorant of the power of divine grace, he cannot help the afflicted one, but will
aggravate the difficulty; but if he has a firm hold upon God, he will be able to help the
diseased, distracted mind. He will be able to point his patients to Christ and teach them
to carry all their cares and perplexities to the great Burden Bearer.--5T 444 (1885).
409 {2MCP 408.2}
Christ Illumines the Mind.--The physician is never to lead his patients to fix their
attention on him. He is to teach them to grasp with the trembling hand of faith the
outstretched hand of the Saviour. Then the mind will be illuminated with the light
radiating from the Light of the world.--Lt 120, 1901. {2MCP 409.1}
Truth Has Soothing Power.--The soothing power of pure truth seen, acted, and
maintained in all its bearings is of a value no language can express to people who are
suffering with disease. Keep ever before the suffering sick the compassion and
tenderness of Christ, and awaken their conscience to a belief in His power to relieve
suffering, and lead them to faith and trust in Him, the Great Healer, and you have
gained a soul and ofttimes a life.-- Lt 69, 1898. (MM 234, 235.) {2MCP 409.2}
True Religion Aids Restoration to Health (words directed to sanitarium guests
attending the local church service).--Christ is our Great Physician. Many men and
women come to this medical institution [St. Helena Sanitarium] with the hope of
receiving treatment that will prolong their lives. They take considerable pains to come
here. {2MCP 409.3}
Why cannot everyone who comes to the sanitarium for physical help come to Christ