The ministry of healing

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...and said, 'The same Jesus who made the lame to walk can do so still: I say to thee, in the nanie of Jesus, rise and walk I' The lame man, with kindred faith, raised himself on his staff and walked, to the astonishment of all who knew him."--Vide the "Metnoire of Kleinschmidt" Barmen, 1866, p. 58,! Another most remarkable instance occurred in the case of a missionary of the Rhenish society, named Nommensen, working in Sumatra: "On one occasion a heathen who had designs on his life managed secretly to mix a deadly poison in the rice which Nommensen was preparing for his dinner. Without suspicion the missionary ate the rice, and the heathen watched for him to fall down dead. Instead of this, however, the promise contained in Mark xvi. 18 was fulfilled, and he did not experience the slightest inconvenience. The heathen, by this palpable miraculous proof of the Christian God's power, became convinced of the truth, and was eventually converted; but not until his conscience had impelled him to confess his guilt to Nommensen did the latter know from what danger he had been preserved. This incident is well attested, and the missionary still lives."--1873, (vd. v, "Rohden Geschichte der Rhein," Missionsgesellsschaft, p. 324.) It will be seen that these instances cover several specifications in Mark xvi. 17, 18. Their miraculous character cannot of course be vouched for with certainty. For we have not witnesses supernaturally inspired to accredit works supernaturally wrought, if there are such still. But one would hardly wish to charge deception on those who have reported them. For us, however, their probability rests more strongly on the words of the great commission " But, inasmuch as far later times are full of testimonies to...