CONSUMPTION INSTANTLY HEALED.

“At a meeting in the Chapel of the Consumptive’s Home, held March 7, 1876, public prayer was offered for a young man in Florida, who was apparently gone in consumption; an interested friend had previously written him that prayer would be offered for him at that time.

“Not long after she received letters from him, stating that at that same hour he too had joined in supplication, and was instantly healed.  He says that while before the Lord, pleading his promise, his voice and strength were taken away for a time.  Then he began to praise the Lord, and to feel, ‘tis done,’ and it was done, and tells of the wonderful change, his ability to talk and sing, with no difficulty whatever.”

CURED OF CATARRH.

“I have been afflicted with catarrh for over twenty years.  I had consulted many physicians and used many remedies—­all failed to help me.  In the Spring of 1874, I grew so much worse that life became a burden; I suffered from dizziness and great prostration; I was urged to go to you for faith cure.  This was no new thing to me; I believed in it, yet found it difficult to exercise faith for myself.

“My daughter went to see you, as I was then unable to go.  I looked to God, and believed from that very moment.  My whole soul and body seemed thrilled, and I began to gain strength immediately.

“In a few days I was able to go to your Home.  You prayed simply that God would take all disease from me.  I have been entirely well from that time; not only cured of catarrh, but tumors on my limbs were entirely removed.  I desire to give God the praise; I bless him that He does forgive our transgressions and heal our diseases.”

These instances are only a very few out of many, that have occurred, too numerous for repetition here.  It must be admitted, that God has most signally blessed the faith of the inmates of the Consumptive’s Home, answered their prayer for others.  In nearly all the cases of healing which have occurred, the sufferers have failed in all other means, and in their extremity have depended wholly in faith in God.

In speaking of them, Doctor Cullis says:  “We do not give these instances of the healing of the body, dear friends of Jesus, as in any degree paramount to the healing of the soul; but that as the dear children of God, we may claim all our privileges, and enjoy the knowledge of our fullness of possession in Him who declares” all things are, yours.”  Shall we in any manner, of smallest or largest import, limit the love and power of God, who deigneth out of the highest heaven to declare,” The Lord thinketh upon me.”  As an earthly parent separates no part of the well-being of his child from his watchful care, so doth our Heavenly Father not only “forgive all our iniquities,” but “healeth all our diseases.”  Let us not confine faith operation to the saving of the soul, while God’s word is full of previous promise for the saving, keeping, and healing of the body.