Divine Healing: Does God Perform Miracles Today?
By R.A. Torrey
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I know of no book on the topic of Divine
Healing that goes thoroughly into the subject and gives all sides of the truth
in their scriptural proportions. Some see only those passages that emphasize
God’s ability and readiness to heal our diseases and what He has done to make
such healing possible today; others are entirely occupied with those passages
that make it clear that God sometimes does not heal or that God has different
ways of working in different dispensations. A book is greatly needed that
considers with utter impartiality all that God has to say on this subject and
that has but one aim, to discover exactly what God teaches on this very
important subject, and all He teaches.
We have not gone into a consideration of such weird, fantastic and—to a careful
Bible scholar—ludicrously impossible and really blasphemous interpretations as
that the bread in the Lord’s Supper is for the healing of the body, and the
wine for the healing of the soul. Time would fail us to chase to their lair and
decapitate all the monstrous vagaries that have haunted the overwrought
imaginations of persons who have become so occupied with the thought of Divine
Healing that they fancied they saw it everywhere.
There is an especial need of a dependable book on Divine Healing at this
particular time. Everywhere there is a most extraordinary interest in the
subject. People are flocking by the thousands and tens of thousands in
different cities to adventurers and adventuresses who oftentimes not only rob
them of their gold but of that which is far more precious than gold. And not a
few evangelists who have lost out in legitimate soul-winning work are putting
to the front the matter of the healing of the body, and are certainly drawing
much larger crowds and receiving far larger pay than they ever did before.
There have been, to my personal knowledge, some very sad tragedies, insanity,
death and shipwreck of faith arising from this pitiable business. Unfortunate
women who have been lured, misled and robbed by plausible male adventurers of
this sort, have poured their bitter cry into my ears; and I have seen
impressionable men lured by women who have a personality that is attractive to
a certain class of men, into folly and uselessness.
Let us see just what God’s Word says. This book is entirely the result of a
careful and thorough study of God’s Word on this subject carried on for at
least thirty—seven years. The clear teaching of Gods’ Word has been corroborated
by thirty—five years or more of experience in my own body, and observation of
the bodies of others. I know God performs miracles of healing today.
R.A. Torrey
RUBEN ARCHER TORREY (1856-1928), educated at Yale University and Divinity School, was renowned as an educator, a pastor, a world evangelist and an author. He pastored Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, was the superintendent of Moody Bible Institute for nineteen years, and served as the dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from 1911 to 1924, when he retired to embark upon full time evangelistic campaigns around the world. Mr. Torrey wrote more than forty books including How to Pray and How to Promote and Conduct a Successful Revival. Mr. Torrey was married to Clara and together they had five children.
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Divine Healing - R.A. Torrey
Introduction
I know of no book on the topic of Divine Healing that goes thoroughly into the subject and gives all sides of the truth in their scriptural proportions. Some see only those passages that emphasize God’s ability and readiness to heal our diseases and what He has done to make such healing possible today; others are entirely occupied with those passages that make it clear that God sometimes does not heal or that God has different ways of working in different dispensations. A book is greatly needed that considers with utter impartiality all that God has to say on this subject and that has but one aim, to discover exactly what God teaches on this very important subject, and all He teaches.
We have not gone into a consideration of such weird, fantastic and—to a careful Bible scholar—ludicrously impossible and really blasphemous interpretations as that the bread in the Lord’s Supper is for the healing of the body, and the wine for the healing of the soul. Time would fail us to chase to their lair and decapitate all the monstrous vagaries that have haunted the overwrought imaginations of persons who have become so occupied with the thought of Divine Healing that they fancied they saw it everywhere.
There is an especial need of a dependable book on Divine Healing at this particular time. Everywhere there is a most extraordinary interest in the subject. People are flocking by the thousands and tens of thousands in different cities to adventurers and adventuresses who oftentimes not only rob them of their gold but of that which is far more precious than gold. And not a few evangelists who have lost out in legitimate soul-winning work are putting to the front the matter of the healing of the body, and are certainly drawing much larger crowds and receiving far larger pay than they ever did before. There have been, to my personal knowledge, some very sad tragedies, insanity, death and shipwreck of faith arising from this pitiable business. Unfortunate women who have been lured, misled and robbed by plausible male adventurers of this sort, have poured their bitter cry into my ears; and I have seen impressionable men lured by women who have a personality that is attractive to a certain class of men, into folly and uselessness.
Let us see just what God’s Word says. This book is entirely the result of a careful and thorough study of God’s Word on this subject carried on for at least thirty—seven years. The clear teaching of Gods’ Word has been corroborated by thirty—five years or more of experience in my own body, and observation of the bodies of others. I know God performs miracles of healing today.
R. A. T.
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.
(James 5:14, 15.)
And when even was come, they brought unto him many possessed with demons; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and bare our diseases.
(Matt. 8:16-17.)
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died.
(2 Kings 13:14.)
Divine Healing
Our subject is Divine Healing. Let me begin with three passages of Scripture that will be the basis of most that I shall say. The first is James 5:14, 15: "Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer