The Ministry of Healing stands as Ellen G. White's comprehensive philosophy of healthcare, presenting Christ's method of healing whole person—body, mind, and spirit. This profound 541-page work traces healing from Eden through Christ's earthly ministry to restored earth, showing God's original plan for health and redemption's restoration. White systematically addresses the physician's calling as sacred work, principles of natural healing, mental and spiritual factors in disease, sanitarium work as medical missionary enterprise, teaching health principles, and ministry to whole communities. Unique chapters address education's role in health, true and false healing methods, prayer for sick, and preparation for death. The work emphasizes that 'pure religion and undefiled' includes relieving suffering, that medical work opens hearts closed to preaching, and that physical healing should lead to spiritual conversion. White presents Christ as Great Physician whose healing touched both body and soul, providing model for all medical missionary work.
Absolutely essential for Christian healthcare workers—physicians, nurses, health educators. Powerful for anyone establishing medical missionary work. Those questioning relationship between healing and evangelism find clear integration. Anyone suffering illness discovers spiritual and physical healing principles.
“The work of the physician is second in importance only to that of the minister.”
“The medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel.”