Editorial November 3, 1928 Issue

"I will restore health unto thee"

Duncan Sinclair

In Moses' great exhortation to Israel, which is set forth in Deuteronomy, are to be found the words, "And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee." In Jeremiah, also, the promise of spiritual healing stands out prominently in the seventeenth verse of the thirtieth chapter, part of which reads, "I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord." These words of the Hebrew lawgiver and the Hebrew prophet show unmistakably that both of them relied on divine power to heal, and that they were desirous that their people should have the same conviction, the same faith.

It is very interesting to note that God's power to heal was thus acknowledged among the children of Israel long before Christ Jesus proclaimed it and demonstrated it with such marvelous skill, and the disciples courageously endeavored to follow in his footsteps. It shows that as God was better understood, as His relationship to man became clearer, men were able to repose faith and trust in His protecting care to such an extent that the evil beliefs which beset them, even to the showing of themselves in forms of disease, were displaced with the inevitable healing result.

With Jesus there came great spiritual enlightenment. No one before him had ever realized so perfectly the indestructible unity which exists between God and man: it was he who said, "I and my Father are one." No one before him, therefore, had ever been able to demonstrate the power of God as he demonstrated it in healing disease and sin. What faith this knowledge gave him; what trust in the power of Spirit! Always with him was the understanding of man's inseparability from infinite good, understanding so clear and so profound, that the so-called powers of evil were forced to disappear before it.

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