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PUBLISHED WITH IHE APPROVALof theBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS,REFORMED PRESBTTERIAN CHUROH,r. «. A.#ttv Wxm^ 0! i|Ti^^i0tt ^ m I ,this prophecy "he healed all tbat weve sick ; "he " bare our sicknesses by healing tbem.''The trnth that the healing of the sick and thevelieving of the bodily snffevings of men was a pavtof the work of our Lovd as the Messiah, is alsoMEDICAL MISSIONS.ave cleansed, and the deaf heav, the dead areraised up, and the poor have the gospel preachedRev. A. P. Happer, M. D., D. D.to them." This passage teaches us that theThe scviptuval warrant for medical missions, healing of the sick -was as truly an integral pavtand the obligation to heal the sick in mission pf the evidence of tbe Messiahship of ouv Lovd,work, is clear and unmistakable. Ouv blessed as is the fact that "to the poor the gospel isLovd and Saviouv, who is in all things ouv ex­pveached.ample,went about healing the sick, opening the We are not, howevev, left to move infevence aseyes of the blind, and causing the lame to walk. to the duty of disciples of Chvist to heal tbe sick.This was not done by ouv Lord luevely as a manifestationof his commisevation fov tbe suffevevs, apostles and the seventy disciples, he gave bothWhen ouv blessed Saviouv sent forth the twelvebnt as an integval pavt of his mission as the companies the express command " to heal theMessiah. In Matthew 8:16, IT, it is said : siek," Matthew 10 : T, 8, reads thus : " As ye" He cast out the spivits -\yith his word and go, preach, saying. The kingdom of heaven is athealed all that weve sick that it might be fulfil ed hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the-which was spoken by Isaiah the pvophet, saying. dead, cast out devils : freely ye have veceived,Himself took our infirmities, and bave ouv sicknesses."This passage pvesents the tvuth that ijnmecliate connection with the command to healfveely give.'' It is to be obsevved that it is init was foretold of the Messiah that, as a pavt of the sick that the injunction is given, " Fveely yehis work, he " himself took our infirmities, and have received, freely give." While this injnnctionbound the apostles to make known the bare our sicknesses,'' and that in fulfilment ofgospelwhich they had fveely veceived, it equallyenjoined npon them to heal the sick, the powev todo which they had also fveely veceived. Theduty to iiiipavt to othevs what has been fveely receivedis the same, w^hethev these blessings cometaught in Matthew 11 : 4, .5 : "When John the miraculously, as they did to the apostles andBaptist had heavd in the prison the works of early Christians, ov whethev they come in tbe ordinavypvovidence of God, as tbey do to us.Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said untohim, Art thou he that should come, ov do we It is also to be cavefuUy considered that ouvlook for anothev ? " meaning to ask explicitly if Lovd, in his infinite wisdom, chose the incidenthe was the expected Messiah. " Jesns answeved of rendering assistance to bodily distvess to teachand said unto them, Go and shew .lohn again us the gveat lesson of who is ouv neighbor, or thethose things which ye do heav and see : the blind common brotherhood of all men. The beautifulreceive their sight, aud the lame walk, the lepers and impressive parable of tbe good Samaritan