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will accompany Jesus' secondpresence in this world. Since now heis a spiritual being, and no longer human,we might reasonably expect thathuman agencies would be the channelsby and through which the lame wouldbe made to walk, the blind to see, thedeaf to hear, and the poor to have thereal gospel, "good tidings," preachedto them.And is not this the case? Are noteyes and ears long closed by prejudice,superstition and human tradition beingopened? Are not those who have longbeen lame, and who have halted betweenthe service of God and the devil,been healed by the truth? Is not thegospel, "good tidings," being preachedto the poor and to them that have nomoney? Truly yes; the work now isthe same as at the first advent, but inharmony with every other part, it is ona higher plane.Undoubtedly those prophecies whichrefer to the blessings of the Millennialage, which tell of the blind eyes beingopened and the deaf ears unstopped,refer primarily and chiefly to the openingof the eyes of the understanding,and the removal of the impediments ofignorance and prejudice from the hearingof faith, yet we know that restitutionwill bring with it also physical healing,and the two, mental and physical healingswill go hand in hand throughoutthe world blessing the sin-crippled ofearth in the name of him who boughtthem with his own precious blood.This being the case, it should not,and does not, surprise us that now bothphases of healing are in progress, andbeing blessed each to its class. Norshould it surprise us that different messengersor agencies are used in the differentbranches of the work. The onecarrying a natural blessing to naturalmen, and the other bearing spiritual