Article December 8, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from P. Gavan Duffy, K. C. Anderson

[Rev. P. Gavan Duffy as quoted in The Living Church]

It is quite beside the mark for anyone to fall back upon the stock cry of most Christian apologists, that the power of healing the sick was given to the church only for a time, when "signs and wonders" were needed to convince and convert the people. The average Christian of to-day has long since come to the conclusion that that form of apology is simply one invented to cover the church's faithlessness.... Never was there a time when "signs and wonders" were more necessary in the Christian world than to-day. That the power to heal is with the church, is manifest to all who will see; and if only we had that essential,—a corporate faith restored instead of faithlessness,—that strange, mysterious, silent influence which is now a sort of pull one experiences rather than defines (the result of corporate faithlessness) in restricting the results of the faithful few, I verily believe we should have in its place an immense, immeasurable spiritual force at work that would mean a speedy return of the day when the church met and triumphed over physical as well as moral ills.

[A merican Lutheran Survey]

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