anywhere but in Christ, and which we shall always find in Him.

And now notice, Jesus Christ does not make half cures--'this
_perfect_ soundness.' If any man, in contact with Him, is but half
delivered from his infirmities and purged from his sins, it is not
because Christ's power is inadequate, but because his own faith is
defective.

Christ's cures should be visible to all around. A man's own testimony
is not the most satisfactory. Peter appeals to the bystanders. 'You
have seen him lying here for years, a motionless lump of mendicancy,
at the Temple gate. Now you see him walking and leaping and praising
God. Is it a cure, or is it not?' You professing Christians, would
you like to stand that test, to empanel a jury of people that have no
sympathy with your religion, in order that they might decide whether
you were healed and strengthened or not? It is a good thing for us
when the world bears witness that Jesus Christ's power has come into
us, and made us what we are.

And so, dear friends, I lay all these thoughts on your hearts.
Christ's gift is amply sufficient to deliver us from all evils of
weakness, sickness, incapacity: to endue us with all gifts of
spiritual and immortal strength. But, while the limit of what Christ
gives is His boundless wealth, the limit of what you possess is your
faith. The rainfall comes down in the same copiousness on rock and
furrow, but it runs off the one, having stimulated no growth and left
no blessing, and it sinks into the other and quickens every dormant
germ into life which will one day blossom into beauty. We are all of
us either rock or soil, and which we are depends on the reality, the
firmness, and the force of our faith in Christ. He Himself has laid