Show t rev bev thomas laton gulick in the evangelist discusses modern miracles and suggests the conclusion that s all 11 to divine power over diseases in als to vo a must be discarded dle carded oo on account 11 of radical differences between the idl agles relas of christ and those now performed tie ae asserts that all who cams came asking aski nir received tio matter br ungrateful or disobedient they arec eromand and that the healings were all perfect and practically instantaneous there were no relapses and the most moat If hopeless teless paes caves were as cured cared as ae shoU tb more oril simple ones abo rev bev gODUS gentleman labors und under or a 11 afy tAky common misconception concern concer D ing the universal character of the igna siepe and wooden performed by our lord fiord it la Is true enough that the miracles he performed were wee numerous and embraced every stage of disease and aed death but the view that every sick eick or dead person that was brought to his notice received health and life finds no support in the scriptures on the contrary it is expressly station that chat he could not perform mavy miracles in ID a certain place on account of unbelief the very existence ezia tence of among the as to the divine power of jesus presupposes that there were ca see apparently justifying a denial rod had the casse of healing bealing been so universal so ft some flome bible readers imagine sickness and death would before loog long have b dpn unknown among the immediate of our lord and life 81 aad immortality established but tham facto ifould have become an ai apparent an aft the light of day and unbelief belief and ad denial made practically impossible or r at least lea futile the apostle were endowed with similar as aa the great master sod their ebbon may be studied as aa an illus ration of the work ot of jesus in this re gard they too healed numerous nume rouB of diseases and even raised the dead but they did not heal every case of sickness that was waa called to their attention paul expressly teaches that the gilt gift of healing bealing la Is one of the mant mani fib stations of the spirit ot of god in toe the church just as aa much as wisdom knowledge and faith yet the very branch of the church to which these manifestations were abundantly given had bad many members suffering from sickness alo knees and weakness on OD account of their spiritual condition a proof of the existence of causes of bodily ailments to which the miraculous gill gift ot of dialing was not to apply in the same way paul pau alone in rome borne awaiting the trial that was to finish his good fight upon earth forthe for the crown of deep urges urge his young friend timothy to hasten to him and one reason for his bis urgency was that he had bad to leave his Trop trophimus tilmus sick at Mil miletus etue here was a case that might apparent jy y have been otherwise had bad the apostles been merely mitt cle makers curing diseases dle eases at will no lose lees ro remarkable Is the advice given by paul to timothy to use a littlewind litt little lewine wine as aft medicine on account of his bis frequent infirmities why did he not advise him to seek eek a miraculous cure BO 80 often effective lo in the axe age of cur lord and his apostles Apost lef leb when such oases cases are considered it will be found as aa rational to deny the power of god in the primitive czuroh BB it la Is to deny ita manifestation fe in this age por for then as now human beings became sick soo ano died in appointed tin tim arid and now dow as then there are bund rede of miraculous bea healings linge by the servants of the lord so as ao an evidence that the gospel of jesus Is in again being preached prea obed to man in ID its purity parity too churches of the world have for centuries denied the power or the will of the almighty to fulfill in this age his hi promises to give his servants power over disease and death they say it to is not needed they for forget galt however that this power is one of the fruits of faith and bonse as essential to the church as faith it Is in an evidence of the di vloe vine mission of those who are en dowed therewith a testimony to the power of the priesthood it to la true thatis Is ot of the greatest importance to divern between that power which to la derived from god and that which evi dently has another origin por for now as in the age of our lord there are many who perform or pretend to perform miracles this does not however affect the general truth that god has in this agi given his servants the power in his name to bless blees mankind with victory over evil influences as 80 in former days the history of the church of jes jeus us christ of latter day saints proves this to be true to an extent the world is slow to admit but the fact remains that the church has bas been established with all the gilts gifts and powers and bler blessings eloge that adorned the abe first age of its brief but triumphant ex istance in the world |