No question of the mandate.

He who went about doing good was a physician of the body as well as of the soul, and could the rich promises of the Gospel have been fulfilled, there would have been no need of a new dispensation of science.

It may be because the children of this world have never been able to accept its hard sayings--the insistence upon poverty, upon humility, upon peace that Christianity has lost touch no less with the practice than with the principles of its Founder.

Yet, all through the centuries, the Church has never wholly abandoned the claim to apostolic healing; nor is there any reason why she should.

To the miraculous there should be no time limit--only conditions have changed and nowadays to have a mountain-moving faith is not easy.