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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 8, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 49.

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Prayer-Healing Voted Out

By K. C. Russell

K. C. RUSSELL
At a great church convention recently held in Cincinnati, Ohio, a resolution expressing faith in healing by prayer was voted down. It is a matter of regret to see great and influential denominations constantly relegating to the background the most precious and comforting truths of the Bible, especially those which have been such a consolation to the sick and suffering as has this. We are glad to know that, no matter what may be voted out by any great religious body, “the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.”
How Satan must rejoice as he sees people carried first to one extreme, and then to the other, on the question of divine healing,—one class led astray by the deception of Christian Science and other so-called divine healers, and another by those who repudiate God’s power to heal the sick in a miraculous way. It is, however, comforting to know the blessed truth of the gospel on this question, amid the babel of voices that are seeking on every hand to confuse and deceive precious souls.
“Christ is the same compassionate physician now that he was during his earthly ministry. In him there is healing balm for every disease, restoring power for every infirmity. His disciples in this time are to pray for the sick as verily as the disciples of old prayed. And recoveries will follow; for ‘the prayer of faith shall save the sick.’ We have the Holy Spirit’s power, the calm assurance of faith, that can claim God’s promises. The Lord’s promise, ‘They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover,’ is just as trustworthy now as in the days of the apostles. It presents the privilege of God’s children, and our faith should lay hold of all that it embraces. Christ’s servants are the channel of his working, and through them he desires to exercise his healing power. It is our work to present the sick and suffering to God in the arms of our faith. We should teach them to believe in the great Healer.”—‘Ministry of Healing,’ page 226.
Takoma Park, D. C.