151. Lastly, God set apostles. Those
whom God set in the Church, Christ chose and ordained to be apostles,
and sent them into the world, saying: “Go ye into all the
world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation. He that shall
believe and be baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall
be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe.
In My Name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new
tongues, they shall take up serpents, and if they shall drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sick,
and they shall recover.” S. Mark xvi. 15 ff. You see
the Father and Christ also set teachers in the Churches; and as the
Father gives the gift of healings, so, too, does the Son give; as the
Father gives the gift of tongues, so, too, has the Son also granted
it.