Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Thanks Guys
There
are so many great places in the world where caring people help other
people. As we pause to give thanks this
November, it might be prudent for us to recall the love and sacrifice that are
behind so many ministries and institutions.
I am thankful for those people who have given their money, efforts, and
sometimes even their lives to establish hospitals, homeless shelters, food
banks, counseling centers, learning centers, and healing homes.
One
such New Englander was Dr. Charles Cullis.
He was born on March 7, 1833 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and "was the
first to come before the American public in this unique ministry. A man of deep
piety and clear thought, he found that prayer was a means of physical
quickening, not alone by its subjective influence, but that resting upon the
promises of God, a power for healing was being manifest in his ministry. Being
well-trained in the system of diagnosis, he was fully qualified to pronounce
the character of the disease with which his patients were afflicted. (http://healingandrevival.com/CullisMacKenzie.pdf)
In
1862 Cullis visited one of the Tuesday Meetings for the promotion of Holiness
started by Phoebe Palmer. Cullis began to search the scriptures and they came
alive for him in a new way... Cullis came into a conviction of personal
justification through Christ alone. He felt called out of the Law into the
grace of God. Depression lifted and a new life of peace, joy, and faith began.
One day Cullis was reading the Bible when the words "every man his
work" from Mark 13:34 jumped off the page at him. Cullis began to feel
that God was calling him to open a home for incurable consumptives as the
"work" God had for him.
The
house opened in 1864 to care for the hopeless, homeless, destitute and dying.
He soon added a second house and then two more. The sign over the door simply
said "Have Faith in God." Over the next several years Cullis added a
worker's home, a cancer home, a spinal home, an orphanage, a mission, a chapel,
a Faith Training College, and supported the Beacon Hill Church on Bowdoin
Street in Boston. The Willard Tract repository was also created for printed
gospel material. Cullis started two major regular publications... Faith was
stretched to the limits, over and over, as funds would dwindle to nothing, and
then God would miraculously provide. Cullis also supported holiness and
temperance works, often speaking at Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Meetings. On top of that Cullis was on the Board of the Massachusetts
Homœopathic Medical Society, which would establish a New England Homœopathic
Hospital and eventually the New England Homœopathic College. This College is
now known as the Boston University School of Medicine." (healingandrevival.com/BioCCullis.htm)
Wow! What an amazing guy. The rest of America may not think of New
England as the Bible belt, but many great moves of God have taken place here
and many believers have expressed their faith by ministering to their fellow
man. Imagine what a difference it would
make for someone if you helped them find a place of healing. Many have gone before us doing just that -
thanks guys!
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