Article July 12, 1919 Issue

Signs of the Times

[Jackson (Mich.) News]

The question forces itself upon attention, how long will our mode of thinking and of living invite and cause the inroads of disease? We know that the Founder of Christianity healed the sick, and his followers, he said, should do the same. It made no difference with him whether the disease was acute or chronic, whether it was a woman sick with fever or a man who for thirty-eight years had been lying on his bed. And after his departure his disciples cured disease. Indeed, as a final instruction to them he declared, without reservation or qualification, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

Are there none, or if any only a few, "that believe," in the sense that the words of the Master meant? The early Christians possessed the power over disease that their great Teacher said they would possess, but in the deluge of materialism and the Dark Ages that followed, this power was lost. What is the promise? "Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." So mote it be—but when?

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