404 HEALTH. 



administration of drugs stage by stage to the phrenopathic art. In 

 the means to which we have alluded, and which is linked with our 

 common faith, this principle becomes all in all. Of course we 

 allude to the healing powers exerted by Christ and His apostles, and 

 by Him bequeathed to the race of man. As we read the Gospels, 

 we see how the Divine Man was also the great Physician ; how he 

 went about healing all manner of sickness and all manner of dis- 

 ease among the people ; and how as many as touched the hem of 

 his garments were made whole, every one. He also commanded 

 his followers to do the like, and founded cure as the grand evidence 

 of the Christian religion. His proofs of his mission were sound 

 bodies; the deaf hearing; the dumb speaking; lepers cleansed; 

 the dead raised ; those who before were blind, now they see. The 

 channel of this was no learned science, but a simple command in 

 His name who has all the power in heaven and on earth. Where 

 is the lineal priesthood of this great restoration? Where are the 

 claimants for this substantial apostolical successorship 1 Where are 

 the layers on of hands who give man to himself by casting out his 

 devils, and increase the prime wealth of the earth as the sign and 

 seal of the advent of the kingdom of heaven ? Where is the clergy 

 to whom sickness makes its last appeal for health, when doctors 

 have pronounced the death words, No hope ? We find them among 

 the fishermen of the first century, but not among the prelates of the 

 nineteenth : in mean-clad Peter and Paul, James and John, but not 

 under the lawn of any right reverend bench. Our pontiffs say that 

 the age of miracles is past ; but no New Testament ever told them 

 so ; Christianity, as we read it, was the institution of miracle as in 

 the order of nature ; and if the age of miracles is gone, it is because 

 the age of Christianity is gone. The age of mathematics would be 

 past, if no man cultivated them. On the other hand we aver, by 

 all our honesty to our faith, that for every reason we can perceive, a 

 duty is neglected here which is a main cause of irreligion and 

 skepticism among men. As in the sciences, which are the kings 

 of these late days, let this mode and matter of healing be fairly ex- 

 perimented. It belongs to the priesthood. Let them turn out into 

 the inclemencies of society, and try their adjurations against the 

 storm of physical evil that exasperates the nations to their core. 



