Since the word _ought_ is used some appear to rejoice in the thought that it is not obligatory. I, for one, ever since the Lord made me a Christian, have always been willing and glad to do just what I _ought_ to do. We scarcely think a man loves God when he refuses to do what he knows he ought to do. “Ye ought to support the weak.” Acts 20:35. “Men ought always to pray.” Luke 18:1. “We ought also to love one another.” 1 John 4:11. “Ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.” John 13:14. Let us as professed followers of Jesus live and do what we _ought_ to do. Happy are ye if you do, but what shall be the result if you refuse? “Therefore we _ought_ to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard.” Heb. 2:1. Will you do as you ought? Because the widow did what she ought she was recommended to the care of the church. 1 Tim. 5:9, 10. Chapter IX. Divine Healing. The thirty-fifth chapter of Isaiah is a prophecy beautifully extolling the glories and virtues of Christ’s redemptive works. “The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.” “It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.... Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing.” In Isaiah sixty-one, is another prophecy of the Savior: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” Isa. 61:1, 2. Where this text is quoted in the New Testament, there is added, “and recovering of sight to the blind.” Luke 4:18. This addition is found in the LXX. Again the prophet speaking of Christ said, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” Isa. 53:5. The evangelist in speaking of the prophecy of Isa. 53:4, 5, says, “When the even was come they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” Mat. 8:16, 17. In verse thirteen is recorded the healing of the centurion’s servant: “Go thy way, and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.” When Jesus saw the mother of Peter’s wife lying sick of a fever, he touched her hand and the fever left her, and she arose and ministered unto them. Ver. 14, 15.