Divine Healing

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.