W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

These books and booklets, all told, number forty-eight, if we are not mistaken. Many of the dear saints are
exceedingly anxious to have them all in their private library. This is certainly a every wise decision on their part,
as in that way they will avail themselves of my whole life of constant toil, amid extraordinary opportunities. If
we did not avail ourselves of the knowledge accumulated by our predecessors, we would make very slow
progress and accumulate but little during this fleeting life.
In that way the world is constantly growing wiser, every generation availing itself of the achievements wrought
by its predecessors. My successors ought to transcend me in the accumulation of knowledge, because they have
the benefit of my long life of constant labor, amid circumstances exceedingly favorable to the acquisition of
knowledge. The rising generation has ample opportunities from my books, substantially to receive and
appropriate and utilize everything that I have ever learned. This is God's method of transmitting the inspired
oracles from generation to generation. 2 Tim. 2:1, “Therefore, thou, my child, be filled with dynamite in the
grace which is in Christ Jesus, and whatsoever thou hast learned with me through many witnesses, commit thou
these things to faithful people, who shall be able also to teach others.” We thus learn God's truth and then teach
others, and so it goes on from sire to son, indefinitely to the latest generation.
My books are plain and easily understood. Therefore with reasonable industry, the rising generation can
substantially learn everything I know, thus availing themselves of my long life of constant toil, amid facilities
and environments exceedingly favorable to the acquisition of knowledge. The books written in our day are
easier for the present generation to understand than those of bygone ages, whose language has largely become
obsolete. All living languages are constantly undergoing changes; therefore the writings of your contemporaries
will be more easily understood than those who lived several generations ago. Besides, we have the benefit of the
great and important discoveries which have been made in the realms of science, art, literature and also Biblical
exegesis. The scholars of the present day know some things of great importance revealed in the Bible, which
John Wesley and his contemporaries did not know, because important discoveries have been made since their
day, correcting errors in the Scriptures which they knew nothing about. As my greatest desire is to transmit to
my successors all of the knowledge I have accumulated in a long life of assiduous study, I am very anxious that
they shall have the full benefit of my books. In one respect I feel, as many able preachers have told me, that my
writings convey more truth in the same space than any they ever saw. My small books are especially
distinguished for the characteristic, multum in parvo, I.e., “much in little,” conveying a heap of truth in a few
words. My large books you will find cheaper in proportion to their contents than any others in circulation.
Divine Healing
My experience along the line of bodily healing abundantly corroborates the great fact that God is the only
Healer. He made the body as well as the soul, consequently He alone knows how to repair them both, when out
of order. While He is the only Healer, it does not follow that physicians are not useful in their place. We need
them for diagnosing, I. e., to tell us what the disease is. As they have made the human body their lifelong study,
of course they have knowledge appertaining to this mysterious organism which those who have not the benefit
of a medical education do not possess.
When I was seventy years old, I fell and broke my arm till it just turned back like a broken stick.
I immediately hastened to a physician who set it and braced it, putting no medicine on it whatever.
Then, at my suggestion, he gladly knelt with me in prayer and we turned it over to the Great Physician to heal it.
I went on preaching, carrying it in a sling. At the expiration of six weeks I returned to him. He took the bandage
off, which he had put on it, removed the braces, and behold, it was well, and not a scar surviving. He was
delighted to see that it had grown together precisely right, not leaving a ridge nor any other mark to survive as a
memento of the former breakage.
Without that medical attention, in view of my age, I would very likely have lost the use of it the balance of my
life. Yet he applied no medicine to execute the healing, but left it with the Lord alone, therefore, you see I
needed him to do a mechanical work, which my friends could not have done, as they would neither have known
how to set it or brace it.