Editorial October 22, 1927 Issue

"And he healed them all"

Albert F. Gilmore

THAT Christ Jesus healed not only those who came to him singly, but also, on occasion, the multitude which, attracted by his growing fame as the divine healer, thronged him whenever his whereabouts became known, the Scriptures bear convincing testimony. Such an instance is related in the Gospel of Matthew. Learning that the Pharisees, bent upon his destruction, were holding a "council against him," he "withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all."

Thus is recorded the healing of a multitude of persons, ill of divers diseases and comprising, no doubt, many different types of thought, many sorts and conditions of men. Yet without exception, so far as the records show, they were healed, every one, by this greatest demonstrator of divine power as available to destroy divers forms of error. As in the healing of the lepers, he healed all apparently simultaneously through his exalted consciousness of God's infinite presence and transcendent power.

This experience on the shores of Galilee is in so sharp contrast with another record of the Scriptures as to command attention. In the account of his return "into his own country," presumably Nazareth, it is recorded that questionings arose among the listeners as he preached in the synagogue. "Is not this the carpenter's son?" they asked. "Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?" And we are told that "he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief." It appears, then, that their unbelief, their failure to recognize the Christ as the Messiah, kept this sublime demonstrator of God's power from proving to them the presence of divine Love to destroy discord, manifest as disease and sin.

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