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their faith? Or, since faith is expecting God to keep His promise, how can there be faith for healing if God has not promised it? And since the Bible is full of promises of healing are they not all Gospel (good news) to the sick? Since "faith cometh by hearing . . . the Word" how can the sick have faith for healing if there is nothing for them to hear?

31. "Could the loving heart of the Son of God, Who had compassion upon the sick, and healed all who had need of healing, cease to regard the sufferings of His own when He had become exalted at the right hand of the Father?"-Kenneth Mackenzie.

TESTIMONIES

Miraculous Healing of One Leads Many to Soul Salvation-Physical Blessings Also Follow

The five testimonies combined under this heading call attention to the spiritual and physical blessings that follow constantly the healing of a single individual. The result of the healing of Aeneas was that all Lydda and Saron turned to God. His healing was as important as the salvation of two cities. Through the healing of the lame man at the beautiful gate of the temple, 5000 men were saved. Paul tells us of God's purpose "to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed through mighty signs and wonders."

The persons healed constantly receive with such physical blessings an infilling of the Spirit and a compassion for others that send them out to seek the salvation of others and to tell them that they, too, can receive from a loving God the healing that they need for their own bodies.

Thrilling testimonies telling of such a "chain of blessings" are continually being received.

Saved and healed of her affliction, Mrs. J. B.

Long, of 38 Clifton Park, North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa., sought to fulfill the promise she made to take a message of Divine healing to some sick friends. Prompted by the Holy Spirit, she went to the altar with her own bodily affliction. Anointed by the Rev. E. D. Whiteside and Evangelist Fred Francis Bosworth she arose to be a spiritual blessing to others. How faithfully she is fulfilling her promise is shown in her determination to carry the Gospel with its messages of bodily healing to the sick in soul and body. Souls saved and bodies healed bring blessed assurance of happiness to the benighted and forsaken.

Cracked Knees-Painful to Walk

Now Climb Steps

More than a year ago I was healed of total deafness in my right ear and also cracked knee-caps. The deafness was due to nervous break-down which I had more than ten years ago and it left me deaf for more than five years. On my way to church one night in company with Miss Elizabeth Taylor, I fell and cracked my knees. They caused me great suffering for several years and kept growing worse all the time.

I could scarcely go up and down the steps, but now, praise God, I can run. I live on the hill top and to take the street car, it is necessary to go down a flight of 185 steps. I used to suffer agony in holding on the rail and trying to get down, but bless His dear name, I can now run down and I

never go down those steps without lifting my heart to God in true thankfulness for what He has done.

It was during the first Bosworth Campaign in Pittsburgh, that I was healed. I sat in the meeting looking at the wonderful sight of people being saved and healed. I had been saved 38 years before when I was just a little girl. The thought came to me that night how sweet it would be to be able to take a message of Divine healing to some of my sick friends. Just then the thought came to me how can I carry the gospel of healing to any one unless I have a testimony of my own? That decided me.

Without the least hesitation I went to the altar with my own bodily ills and was anointed. Brother F. F. Bosworth and Rev. E. D. Whiteside prayed with me and I was instantly healed. It was complete and during the year following my healing I have never had any return of the trouble. I was saved to serve and I was anxious to be healed that I might serve Him better. As I walked up Ohio street that night to take the car, I suddenly seemed to be in a new world.

I believe at that time God gave me a fresh baptism of His Holy Spirit. This has been the most wonderful year of my life, for God has so sweetly used me in His service. Truly, there is joy in the service of the King. I have had more spiritual blessings follow my healing and Christ has been nearer and dearer to me than ever before.

I find the great secret of this joy comes from testifying to the power of God. The night I was healed I testified to a member of my Church on the car. I knew it would spread. The following week my pastor called me aside, told me what he had heard and asked if it was true. I told him it was true. He could not see it my way at first, but when I gave him Scripture for it (Matt. 8:16-17) the Lord fully convinced him.

The following week our services opened. It was the best revival we ever knew. One evening each week, our pastor spoke on Divine healing. The invitation went out to those seeking salvation or healing. The pastor anointed, while Brother I. E. Hoover and I laid hands on the sick. Many were healed while we prayed with them.

I felt I was just an empty vessel lying at the Master's feet, ready to be filled and used in His service The next day after my healing, I asked the Lord to send me to some one who needed healing, that I might tell my story. The face of a friend of mine came before me, Mrs. Sadie Robinson, 11 Brightridge street. I went to call and found her in bed, having been ill for many weeks.

The next day Brother I. E. Hoover offered his machine; we took her to the C. & M. A. Tabernacle, Arch street, where she was anointed by Brother Bosworth and healed. It resulted in the salvation of four in her family. God has been wonderfully using her, to His honor and glory. One of her neighbors, Mrs. Bigley, a great sufferer for 30

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