England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; Husband and wife -- Fiction; Siblings -- Fiction
"Tell me one thing," I said, turning to Mr. Henderson. "Do you think
that everybody who has sufficient faith in Christ could heal as you do?"
"That again I do not know. It is all in His hands. But I am inclined
to think that as there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit, so
the gift of healing is given to one, the gift of preaching to another,
and so on, and we have not all the same gifts. It is all Christ
working in us; but He works one way in one person and another way in
another. We must cultivate the gift that we have, and be content to do
without the gifts that have been denied us, and as we are all members
of Christ there can be no rivalry amongst us."
"After all," I said after a moment's silence, "we are sent into the
world to do the Will and not to trouble about the Doctrine: that
follows the other as a matter of course. And submission is the most
necessary and the most difficult lesson we have to learn. If we were
allowed to choose our gifts I should have chosen the one of healing;
but we are not allowed to choose."
Mr. Henderson looked at me intently for a moment with his piercing dark
eyes. "I do not know, but I think that you have the gift of healing,"
he said; "utterly uncultivated and undeveloped, but ready for Christ's
use, should He need it."
And then the motor came round, and he drove away to the multitudinous
duties awaiting him in town, and I went upstairs to rejoice with Fay,
as before I had mourned with her.
CHAPTER VI
ST. LUKE'S SUMMER
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