I know of no book on the topic of Divine
Healing that goes thoroughly into the subject and gives all sides of the truth
in their scriptural proportions. Some see only those passages that emphasize
God’s ability and readiness to heal our diseases and what He has done to make
such healing possible today; others are entirely occupied with those passages
that make it clear that God sometimes does not heal or that God has different
ways of working in different dispensations. A book is greatly needed that
considers with utter impartiality all that God has to say on this subject and
that has but one aim, to discover exactly what God teaches on this very
important subject, and all He teaches.
We have not gone into a consideration of such weird, fantastic and—to a careful
Bible scholar—ludicrously impossible and really blasphemous interpretations as
that the bread in the Lord’s Supper is for the healing of the body, and the
wine for the healing of the soul. Time would fail us to chase to their lair and
decapitate all the monstrous vagaries that have haunted the overwrought
imaginations of persons who have become so occupied with the thought of Divine
Healing that they fancied they saw it everywhere.
There is an especial need of a dependable book on Divine Healing at this
particular time. Everywhere there is a most extraordinary interest in the
subject. People are flocking by the thousands and tens of thousands in
different cities to adventurers and adventuresses who oftentimes not only rob
them of their gold but of that which is far more precious than gold. And not a
few evangelists who have lost out in legitimate soul-winning work are putting
to the front the matter of the healing of the body, and are certainly drawing
much larger crowds and receiving far larger pay than they ever did before.
There have been, to my personal knowledge, some very sad tragedies, insanity,
death and shipwreck of faith arising from this pitiable business. Unfortunate
women who have been lured, misled and robbed by plausible male adventurers of
this sort, have poured their bitter cry into my ears; and I have seen
impressionable men lured by women who have a personality that is attractive to
a certain class of men, into folly and uselessness.
Let us see just what God’s Word says. This book is entirely the result of a
careful and thorough study of God’s Word on this subject carried on for at
least thirty—seven years. The clear teaching of Gods’ Word has been corroborated
by thirty—five years or more of experience in my own body, and observation of
the bodies of others. I know God performs miracles of healing today.
