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This is connected with his command, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15-18). If the command to preach is given to all ages, as we are taught, so must the promise of healing belong to all ages.

"Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him." Jas. 5:14, 15.

It is evident from this that the disciples did not believe that Divine Healing was limited to the students of Jesus, or to any age of the world. We know that for three centuries healing was part of Christian practice, "Until," as one says, "the Church joined hands with the world under Constantine." A voice calls to the Church today, "0 Church of the living God, holding in thy hands thy Master's commission, with no clause annulled, and no sentence revoked by Divine authority, why is it that the lame must lie at thy door, and thou hast no healing shadow to cast upon him? Why must the sick lie on his couch and thou speakest no word of authority to lift him up? Have ye forgotten to 'Try his works to do?' Have ye no desire to show forth the signs that he promised you as believers? Have ye lost faith in the changeless power of his name?"

One says that if the sick cannot depend wholly