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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... spoken was not addressed to his physical condition or bodily interests -- it went much deeper: "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." Afterward the man was enabled by the healing power of Chirst to take up his bed and walk. When Jesus had healed the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda, He said to him, "Behold, thou art made whole! Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon thee." Where the source of the trouble lay in some moral delinquency, and where the healing was withheld by an unwillingness on the part of the sufferer to "about face" in his fundamental purpose, then the One who came to forgive our iniquities and to heal our diseases dealt frankly with that moral lack. It is also to be noted that Jesus never worked His cures for pay. He was in no sense a professional physician engaged in a lucrative practice. He would not confuse the issue by undertaking to combine the profitable practice of medicine with His high office of spiritual leadership. He would not use His marvelous power to change stones into bread, which in a stony country like Palestine would have been a most rewarding line of effort. He was quite unlike some of the modern professional healers who undertake in the disregard they show for the higher interests at stake to live by bread alone. He brought into the field uniformly a pure, unselfish personality as He went about preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and healing many that were sick of divers Jesus furthermore avoided all display. The One who refused to cast Himself down unhurt from the pinnacle of the temple, as possibly He might have done, would not parade His acts of healing upon the street corners or sound a trumpet before Him to advertise His success. He said on many occasions, when some sufferer had been healed, "See that thou tel...
