Article December 31, 1932 Issue

In a recent issue of the Times-Union a prominent clergyman...

W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,—Jacksonville

Times-Union

In a recent issue of the Times-Union a prominent clergyman of your city affirms that preachers and priests of this age are not given power to heal the sick, and that "no healing from physical infirmities is promised or need be expected, except according to James 5:14."

But what does James say about healing physical infirmities? Just this: "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." James further says, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." Surely this should be a command sufficient to warrant preachers and priests to attempt to heal the sick through righteous prayer.

When Christ Jesus sent forth his disciples, his command to them was that they heal the sick as he did. His message for all time was: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Did Jesus mean what he said? If so, who has the right to set aside his command? The command to "heal the sick" is as imperative as to "preach the gospel," and no ingenuity of men can separate them. They are as inseparable as Christ Jesus and his Christianity.

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