Article June 28, 1930 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from James H. Grier, John Bevan, M. G. Morris, Grove Patterson

[James H. Grier, D.D., in the United Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

Men need a message of healing. Jesus healed men. No sick man needed to go away from his preaching without feeling himself physically well. The blind saw, the lame walked, the deaf heard, the palsied rose from their beds. He commissioned his disciples to preach the gospel to "the whole creation," saying, "These signs shall accompany them that believe: ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (Am. Rev. Ver.). And again, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do."

But what has become of the ministry of healing? The evidence is that it lasted through the apostolic age and into the following century, gradually almost disappearing from the church as the burning heart of the first generations cooled, and formalism took the place of the original simplicities. Perhaps the hard and relentless logic of Alexandrian and Athenian schools affected those second and third century Christians.

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