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hardly be reasonable to suppose that this one instance taught such a lesson. Clay and spittle, remaining on the eyes for a few minutes only, would not be accepted as a remedy for blindness. A minister has asserted that no one could for a moment suppose this application to have had anything to do with the healing.

In their use, there must have been a lesson and, as the blind one was told to go at once and wash off the clay, after which "he came seeing," it may suggest to us that we too are in blindness while we resort to material means, and that we must remove all such beliefs of help before we "come seeing."

Some refer to the fact that Luke is called "the beloved physician," but we hear nothing of his work as a physician. After his conversion to Christianity he became a fellow worker with Paul, and we know that Paul exercised the Christian's privilege of Divine Healing. Likewise now, many a beloved physician has seen and accepted, and is practicing healing through the Perfect Mind.

A few other statements are presented as pleas for medicine, but these are just as indefinite as the ones mentioned. Jesus' words, "They that are whole need not a physician but they that are sick," may justly be claimed as having reference to his own work in healing the sick. He followed that statement with the further one, "I came not to call