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The Ministry of Healing
lect and influence. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, many will
be led to accept the divine principles.
When it is made plain that the Lord expects them as His rep-
resentatives to relieve suffering humanity, many will respond and
will give of their means and their sympathies for the benefit of the
poor. As their minds are thus drawn away from their own selfish
interests, many will surrender themselves to Christ. With their tal-
ents of influence and means they will gladly unite in the work of
beneficence with the humble missionary who was God’s agent in
their conversion. By a right use of their earthly treasures they will
lay up for themselves “a treasure in the heavens that faileth not,
where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.”
When converted to Christ, many will become agencies in the
hand of God to work for others of their own class. They will feel
that a dispensation of the gospel is committed to them for those who
have made this world their all. Time and money will be consecrated
to God, talent and influence will be devoted to the work of winning
souls to Christ.
Only eternity will reveal what has been accomplished by this
kind of ministry—how many souls, sick with doubt and tired of
worldliness and unrest, have been brought to the great Restorer, who
longs to save to the uttermost all that come unto Him. Christ is a
risen Saviour, and there is healing in His wings.
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