ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM CHINA.
That the Lord is still a physical as well as a spiritual Healer, is attested by a report from Drs. A. C. Salmon and H. W. Miller, of Honan, China. To the mission board they write as follows:— “The Lord has promised in Mark 16:17, 18, that these signs shall follow them that believe. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” We have seen the Lord make this promise good. A young man was brought into our mission, having an affection of the bone of the left forearm. The arm was greatly swollen. We found upon examination that the swelling was caused by pus. The pain was very great, and the fever high. We made an opening down upon the cavity, and gave exit to a large quantity of decayed flesh and bone. Amputation was the only resource to save the man’s life. There was no place to perform the operation except the open courtyard, where we have already been treating the patients who have come to us; for as yet we do not have sufficient funds to rent a place where we can have a dispensary. Having already begun to treat this case, and it was very evident that the man would soon die, we came to a place of great need. It was our extremity and God’s opportunity. So, calling in two of our Chinese converts, we stood about the man, laying our hands on his head, and asked the Lord to heal him. We explained to him that only Jesus could heal him, for we of ourselves could do nothing for him. After prayer we told him that Jesus had done the work, and immediately he stopped groaning for pain, and his face brightened up. The arm had been growing worse from day to day, but, following this, recovery was very rapid. The man’s arm was saved as the result of the Lord’s work; but, had he been treated in the best hospital in the United States, he would now be minus one arm, and in all probability would not be living. Calls are coming in to us from the cities and country round about, and every week some one will come begging us to go with them and preach to a company who want to hear the “true doctrine.” Just to-day a cart and two men have come from a city forty miles to the north of us, requesting that Brother Blanquist go back with them and tell them further about Jesus.