The Healing Voice on the Power of Prayer, Faith Literature and the Sceince of Healing; On the Power of Prayer, Faith Literature and the Science of Hea

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... Jesus Said, He That Believeth On Me. Jesus worked miracles and promised that they should be continued. He that beliveth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do. No declaration can be clearer or more explicit than this: If that which is recorded as history be authentic, it appears that miracle working was possible in the church for several centuries after the death of Jesus. St. Augustine, one of the most orthodox of the Anti-Nicene Fathers living in the third century says, They ask me, why do the miracles which, as you say, were performed in former times not occur to-day? And he replies, At this very day a multitude of miracles do occur. The same God who worked the signs and wonders which we read of works similar prodigies still by such persons as He sees fit to select. The promise of Jesus Christ continues; do the gifts follow? If not, why? John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, presents this answer, The grand reason. he says, why the miraculous gifts were so soon withdrawn was, not only that faith and holiness were well nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began even then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to decry them as either madness or imposition.--Extract from a book by Dr. Jos. R. Nichols, Which, Whence, Where. THE ABIDING ONE. God is the rook of my heart and my portion forever,--Pbaim udii. 26. cfOME hearts are like a quiet village street, A-7 Few and well known the passers to and fro; Some like a busy city's market place, Where countless forms and faces come and go. Into my life unnumbered steps have trod, Though brief that life and nearing now its close; At first the forms of phantasies and dreams, And then the varied tread of friends and foes. Coming a...