"Well, I will try not to," she said, with a faint sigh. "But truly, Uncle Phil, I can't help thinking that it was never intended that Jesus' way should be stopped any more than the 'new gospel,' as you call it, was meant to be forgotten, or lost, after His resurrection. I think that the healing was a part of the 'new gospel.'" "Well, Miss Thoughtful, that is certainly a good argument," returned her companion, smiling into the earnest, uplifted eyes. "But who has been talking to you to set you to reasoning so deeply on the subject?" He was wondering if Katherine Minturn might not have dropped a seed of her doctrine into the receptive mind of his niece. "Nobody--I just thought it out for myself. You see I can't do much but think, and I often get very puzzled about God and the queer things He lets happen. You know it says in the Bible that He is 'too pure to behold Iniquity,' or evil--and 'does not regard it with any degree of allowance'; and yet there seems to be more sin, sickness and dreadful accidents than anything else in the world." "It is a mystery, I confess; but what makes you think that Jesus intended that His way of healing should be continued after His ascension?" inquired her uncle, who was deeply interested in the child's reasoning. "Why, you see, just before He went away He had a talk with His disciples and gave them some last commands. He told them to go everywhere and preach to everybody--to 'heal the sick, raise the dead, and cast out sin or devils.' Now, Uncle Phil, that command is all one--the first part of it says 'heal the sick, raise the dead,' then comes the rest of it--'cast out sin;' and I don't see what right people have to pick it to pieces and say He didn't mean them to obey any but the last part of it." "I see," nodded the young man, as she paused to impress her thought upon him. "Well, then He told them that everybody who believed what He preached would be able to do the same things. Don't you remember He said--'Teach them to observe'--and observe means to practice-- 'all things whatsoever I have commanded you.' Those were His very words. Now don't you think that meant to heal in His way instead of using drugs and all sorts of queer things that the Bible doesn't say anything about?" and Dorothy bent an eager, inquiring look upon her uncle. "Where do you find all that?" questioned Phillip Stanley, and thus evading a direct reply. But what she had said had set him thinking of arguments along the same line which Mrs. Minturn had used, during some of their discussions on board the Ivernia. Dorothy shot a roguish glance up at him. "I guess you don't know your Bible very well, do you, Uncle Phillip?" she said, laughing. "But when you go home please read the last six verses of the last chapter of Mark, and then the last two verses of the last chapter of Matthew, and see for yourself if what Jesus said about healing the sick isn't just as strong as what He said about preaching to sinners."