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lessings to the spiritual. To everyman his work.And so it is. While we are busilyengaged ministering the spiritual blessings,we note with pleasure the progressof physical blessings to natural men--the beginning of restitution. Trulywonderful and very gracious manifestationsof God's power are the faith-healingsof which we now so frequentlyhear, and in contact with which we aresometimes thrown, though to us not soprecious, nor so refreshing, nor so frequentas the evidences of spiritual blessingwith which we come in contact daily.We call attention to the fact that thenominal church is entirely ignored, andstands unused of the Master in the distributionof either the physical or spiritualhealings. She is neither cold norhot, and is spewed out of the Lord'smouth and is no longer used as hisagency or mouthpiece. Would that shecould see her blindness and would puton the eye salve, that she might realizeher poverty and nakedness; but instead,she says, "I am rich and increased withgoods, and have need of nothing."Rev. 3:17.Notice again, that the physical healingsnow, as at the first advent, are notperformed upon the saints, but ratherupon those not consecrated to sacrifice,and even among the worldly. Notethe class now healed physically, andthen read of those healed by Jesus andthe disciples; they are alike. Jairus'daughter, the widow's son, the ruler'sservant, the men at the pool, the tenlepers. Lazarus even is not mentionedas a disciple; none of the disciples wereever miraculously healed. Paul's soreeyes were not healed, though he besoughtthe Lord on the subject thrice;Timothy had "often infirmities" (1 Tim. 5:23);Epaphroditus was sick nigh untodeath (Phil. 2:25,27), and Trophimus