The Ministry of Healing by M. E. Steward

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 21, 1906

“The Ministry of Healing”

M. E. STEWARD

THIS volume is truly a treasure. We have read it through in the family, and half-way through again. It has been a constant surprise and pleasure to me. It shows thorough acquaintance with all our relations in life, both to God and to one another, advises on points that are overlooked by other writers, and gives such wise counsel that gratitude springs up involuntarily. No one can afford to miss a careful reading and study of these precious pages.

By the way, there is not a touch of an enfeebled mind about this very valuable book. Why should there be? God does not become demented by age, and his is the spirit of prophecy.

John was an old man when he wrote the Revelation, and still older when he penned his Gospel. There is not a weak point in either. Read the first chapter of John for sublime conception, or see the perfect adaptation of the imagery of Revelation to the objects represented, and then study John’s epistles for a reflection of the love and purity and loyalty of the spirit of Christ; yet John was between ninety and one hundred years of age when he wrote these excellent books. 2 Cor. 4:7, 16; Isa. 40:29-31.

“Ministry of Healing” is full of beautiful, sympathetic thoughts and passages, which cause one to feel that the writer knew perfectly well the subject under consideration. And such a range of subjects! The title of the book enlarges as one reads, and he realizes, as not before, that “ministry” is needed all the time, everywhere.

We are to remember that with God is eternal youth, infinite kindness, and perfect wisdom; and that his works, whether wrought through old or young, will ever bear the impress of his infinite mind, as we find it in “Ministry of Healing.”

Graysville, Tenn.