Prayer is the spiritual instrument on which our Lord in His Human Nature relies, and on which He encourages His Church to rely--‘a mighty engine of achievement.’[55] His method was grounded in prayer, the prayer of that Divine fellowship, which is His, as it cannot belong to any of the sons of men, and yet in Him, ‘in the Name of Christ,’ the Church must still expect to accomplish the miracles of faith, in proportion to the degree of her own spirituality. Who, indeed, would have looked for miracles of healing in the English Church of the eighteenth century, unless it were among the non-jurors, who actually revived the apostolic rite of unction,[56] and the pious followers of John Wesley?[57] [55] Sir Oliver Lodge. [56] The Rev. P. Dearmer, _Body and Soul_, p. 289 sq. [57] _Ib._ 362, 363. (ii) But that spiritual power, thus resident in the Healer, has to communicate itself to the subjects of His grace; subjects they must be rather than objects. And His first purpose is to excite the dormant energies of life and action. He does it as a wise physician will do it, by concentrating the patient’s mind upon Himself.[58] This is done by a question, or other means, adapted, with His profound insight into character, to the individual case. In the case of the deaf man who had an impediment, He effected this by isolating him,[59] and then using physical means (with finger and saliva). Exactly parallel is the case of the blind man, which, like the former, is recorded by St. Mark alone.[60] He asks blind Bartimæus, ‘What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?’[61] And this is one of several cases in which the sovereign faculty of will leaps forth, and the confession of faith attends it.[62] In the cure of the lame man by St. Peter (in Acts iii. 4, 5) this concentration of the thought of the patient upon the healer is reciprocal (ἀτενίσας ... ἐπει̑χεν). [58] ‘When the eye of the patient meets the eye of the physician, the cure begins if it is likely to take place.’--Dr. A. T. Schofield, cited by Dr. Worcester in _Religion and Medicine_, p. 50. [59] Mark vii. 33. [60] _Ib._ viii. 23. [61] Luke xviii. 41. [62] John v. 6, 8.