And, therefore--to come back to the very place from which
I started at the beginning of my sermon--therefore, whenever one of
the days of the Lord is at hand, whenever God's kingdom makes a great
step forward, this same prophecy in our text is fulfilled in some
striking and wonderful way. And I say it is fulfilled now in these
days more than it ever has been. Christ is healing the sick,
cleansing the leper, giving sight to the blind, raising the dead, and
preaching the gospel to the poor, seven times more in these days in
which we live than He did when He walked upon earth in Judaea.
Do you doubt my words? At all events you confess that the cure of
all diseases comes from Christ. Then consider, I beseech you, how
many more diseases are cured now than were formerly. One may say
that the knowledge of medicine is not one hundred years old.
Nothing, my friends, makes me feel more strongly what a wonderful and
blessed time we live in, and how Christ is showing forth mighty works
among us, than this same sudden miraculous improvement in the art of
healing, which has taken place within the memory of man. Any country
doctor now knows more, thank God, or ought to know, than the greatest
London physicians did two generations ago.
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