tell; that they will conquer at the last, because Christ is stronger
than the devil; good is stronger than evil; light is stronger than
darkness; God's Spirit, the giver of life, and health, and order, is
stronger than all the evil customs, and ignorance, and carelessness,
and cruelty, and superstition, which makes miserable the lives and,
as far as we can see, destroys the souls of thousands. Yes, I say,
Christ's kingdom is a kingdom of health and deliverance for body and
soul; and it will conquer, and it will spread, and it will grow, till
the nations of the world have become the kingdoms of God and of His
Christ. Christ reigns, and Christ will reign till He has put all His
enemies under His feet; and the last of His enemies which shall be
destroyed is DEATH. Death is His enemy. He has conquered death by
rising from the dead. And the day will come when death will be no
more--when sickness and sorrow shall be unknown, and God shall wipe
away tears from all eyes. I say it again--never forget it--Christ is
King, and His kingdom is a kingdom of health, and life, and
deliverance from all evil. It always has been so, from the first
time our Lord cured the leper in Galilee; it will be so to the end of
the world. And, therefore--to come back to the very place from which
I started at the beginning of my sermon--therefore, whenever one of
the days of the Lord is at hand, whenever God's kingdom makes a great
step forward, this same prophecy in our text is fulfilled in some
striking and wonderful way. And I say it is fulfilled now in these
days more than it ever has been. Christ is healing the sick,
cleansing the leper, giving sight to the blind, raising the dead, and
preaching the gospel to the poor, seven times more in these days in
which we live than He did when He walked upon earth in Judaea.

Do you doubt my words? At all events you confess that the cure of
all diseases comes from Christ. Then consider, I beseech you, how