April 8, 1888

Cured at Last!   “And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.”— Luke viii. 43, 44.   THOUGH I take Luke’s statement as a text, I …

Luke:8:43-44

August 14, 1887

The Blind Beggar of the Temple, and His Wonderful Cure   “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto …

John:9:5-7

June 20, 1886

Healing and Pardon   “And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.”— Isaiah xxxiii. 24.   THIS whole chapter was a gracious message from God to a people who were in extremis. They were made to drink the foulest dregs of sorrow through the invasion of the Assyrians. …

Isaiah:33:24

April 19, 1885

First Healing and Then Service    “And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.’’— Matthew viii. 14, 15.   THIS event took place at Capernaum, but Peter’s residence was at Bethsaida; …

Matthew:8:14-15

August 11, 1872

The Healing of One Born Blind   “Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.”— John ix. 32.   THAT was quite true: there was no instance recorded in Scripture or in profane history at the time when this man spoke, of any person who was born …

John:9:32