broader views of the Truth about spiritual gifts.

Healing of the body is beautiful and good. Power to heal is a divine gift, and as such you are fully justified in seeking it. But God wants to give you infinitely more.

Why should you and I restrict the limitless One to the bestowal of a particular gift, unless, indeed, we be so fairly consumed with an inborn desire for it that we are sure that it is God's highest desire for us? In that case, we shall not have to try to heal. Healing will flow from us wherever we are. Even in a crowd of people, without any effort of our own, the one who needs healing will receive it from us; that one will "touch" (Mt. 9:21) us, as did the one woman in all the multitude jostling and crowding against Jesus. Only one touched him.

The power to heal the body has heretofore been, as I have already said, set up as a test of one's spiritual understanding. At first, all who come into some knowledge of the Truth do heal more or less; but there comes a time to many when, in their onward growth, they fail to heal.

This has brought great disappointment not unmixed with considerable humiliation. But, my dear friends, do not let such an experience discourage you. It only means that God is leading you upward into higher things. Every denial of evil and affirmation of good you have made has served to push you upward. Do not fear or get nervous