Paul's
regard for Timothy is strikingly shown in the words of the eleventh verse of the sixth chapter of the apostle's first epistle to his "own son in the faith": "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Although
the healing of disease occupied a prominent place in the ministry of Christ Jesus, Christians ceased almost entirely to practice it about three centuries after the crucifixion.
A Clearer
comprehension of divine Love, a wider, purer, more constant receptivity to good — in other words, greater spirituality — is the vital need of the human race.
Christ Jesus
healed the sick and the sinning through spiritual understanding, and the early Christian church did the same for upwards of three hundred years; but after that, spiritual healing practically ceased.
