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SPIRITUAL MEDICINE

“I will restore health unto thee, I will heal thee of thy wounds.”
--Jer. 30:17

These words of Jeremiah embody one of the sweetest promises ever made to the race, and yet it is one all too frequently unfulfilled. Is it because God has forgotten His promise, or because we have lost the art of relying on this promise that it has come to read as if it were written for a special people, or a limited period? If history tells us truly, there was a time when men as naturally turned to God for the healing of their infirmities as they now turn to material remedies. In the ancient Jewish religious consciousness, the idea that health, as well as life, was from God, seems to have been firmly rooted. Hence it was that they sought unto the Lord in their disease, and never thought of applying elsewhere until the Egyptian sorcerers and medicine men corrupted their thought and weaned them from their reliance on That Only Which can be relied upon.

“In that age of simple child-like faith in God,” says one, “men knew no better than to apply to