The Ministry of Healing
By J. S. WASHBURN
THE tenderness and sweetness of this medical missionary book are truly refreshing. There is nothing technical, nothing professional, about it. It is so practical, so fragrant with the spirit of the great Medical Missionary, that it throws a new light over the whole medical missionary movement in Christ’s time, which is to be repeated in our own day in the lives of his representatives and messengers. Love, hope, blessing, shine out from every page. Healing for the troubled, despondent soul, for the weary, harassed nerves, for the body, weak and lame and full of pain, is here. How blessed it is to live in a time when God speaks by his Spirit to his people! The simple, sweet old story of the love of Jesus and his power to save to the uttermost is here. I thank God for this book. It is so appropriately illustrated that it is easy to show at a glance what it is to those who need it; and who in this sin-sick world does not need it? It seems to me that this book would sell more easily than any other that has ever been published, and this is saying much, for through the spirit of prophecy the Lord has surely placed in our hands a wonderful literature. An elderly gentleman, a deacon and leader in the Methodist Church, came to our tent-meetings with his wife, who had lost her sight several years ago. Both husband and wife believed in God and his power to heal, and were praying, and still are, that the tender Saviour will touch the eyes that are blind, and restore again the gift of sight. ‘Ministry of Healing’ was loaned to this friend, who read it to his wife. He said, “It is the best book I ever read. I read it to my wife, and we both wept over it. Tell me where I can purchase one for myself, and I will go and buy it at once. I must have one of my own.” There are many others, I am certain, who will not need to be urged to purchase this refreshing presentation of the life of the blessed Healer, of the true Medical Missionary, who spoke not in technical language mysteries which he held in his grasp high above the heads of the common people, but who came near to men in sin and in pain, and brought them refreshing, healing, and life. What a mighty work can be done with this book, and our medical institutions receive the benefit financially and spiritually. What a mighty power will our own people become when each one realizes in his own life the working of the Spirit that inspired this book, and is a living representative of Christ, who by his Spirit lives with us still, healing, comforting, and saving, now and eternally. J. S. WASHBURN.