I have thought many times since, these words came to me with peculiar force and beautiful fitness, how much real enjoyment and profit is lost through a lack of appropriating God's word to our every need; and while it appears that this quotation, with many others equally helpful, has a powerful significance at the present hour, would it not be well to lay aside some of the rush and tumult of mortal thought, and give these angel visitors more prayerful attention.
At this age of the world when, "miraculous cures," so-called, are becoming frequent, there is little room to doubt the agency through which they are wrought.
Some months ago, I received a letter from a lady in the far west, who was afflicted with what "Materia Medica" would term, a closed tear passage. The eye had become troublesome with almost incessant weeping, and the physician to whom she had applied for relief, recommended a surgical operation as her only resort. To this she raised serious objections, and while endeavoring to school herself for the much-dreaded ordeal, my brother, who lives near, learning of her case, suggested that she try the metaphysical treatment.
