Christ, the Healer by W. W. P.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 4, 1902

Christ, the Healer

By W. W. P.

These truths should be taught clearly in every one of our health institutions. Although agencies are employed in the treatment of the sick, and the recovery is gradual, yet it is true that every case of restoration to health is just as really the direct working of Jesus the Saviour, as when He healed instantaneously and without visible means the multitude that followed Him in His earthly ministry. When He changed the water into wine at Cana of Galilee, He drew back the curtain behind which He ordinarily hides His working in nature, and revealed the fact that it is himself, and not some impersonal force, who changes water into wine every season in every vineyard. And so His miracles of healing should make it clear to us that He, and not some impersonal agency, whether it be “medicine,” or “treatment,” is the one and only healer. And further, the truth should be taught that when it will glorify His name to do so, He can heal disease just as quickly as He can forgive sins. The same Jesus who said to the sick of the palsy, “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee,” said also, and on the same occasion, “Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.” And when they saw the result, “they were all amazed, and glorified God.” “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and forever,” and upon the corner stone of every sanitarium should be inscribed these words: “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” W. W. P.