Signs of the Times

["The Gift of Healing," by Rev. Frank N. Riale in Christian Work, New York, N. Y.]

If the Mind that was in Christ Jesus is the will of God for all, it certainly must be clear that in the great unfolding of the divine purpose there must be in our life-program a place—a most important and functional place—for "the gift of healing," as there was such a large and important place for it in the life-program of Jesus. He who reads the New Testament without seeing this must be as much blinded to the fullness of its messages as the Jews were to the Messianic destiny of Christ Jesus.

A convict in one of our penitentiaries once counted the verses of the Bible from start to finish. To his great surprise he found that the one which was exactly at the center was the great declaration of the purpose of Jehovah to forgive all our sins and heal all our diseases. Jesus came to make clear to the world this one distinctive purpose of the Father for every child of the race. That Jesus came to save us from our sins is the distinct angelic announcement. He ever "went about healing all manner of diseases," in the working out of the divine purpose. He was indeed "the Word made flesh," in the working out of this double or twofold purpose in God's mighty life-restoring work. Whatever else God has in store for men, this thing is as clear as a beam of sunlight. It is that we are to have our sins banished as far as the east is from the west, so that they will be remembered no more against us forever; and that sickness, like sin,—its source,—may be just as fully banished to its utter nothingness. God certainly never intended a man to be sick, any more than He intended him to be a sinner. As Professor Bruce says: "Christ's healing miracles are signs that disease does not belong to the true order of nature; a prophecy that the true order shall be restored." God has provided a way whereby sickness shall go like sin.

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