In this evening sermon Pastor Rockhill traces Peter's missionary travels through the Gentile regions of Lydda, Sharon, and Joppa, showing how the risen Christ continued to build His church through the ministry of His apostle. The central burden is that Peter possessed no power in himself; every mighty work was done in the name and by the authority of the living Jesus Christ, confirming the word of the gospel so that many turned to the Lord. Expounding the healing of the paralyzed Aeneas and the raising of Tabitha, called Dorcas, Pastor Rockhill draws out the faith of Peter and of those he served. He lingers on the meaning of "saints" as ordinary believers made holy by justification through faith, not a special class of super-Christians, and he honors Dorcas as a faithful woman who abounded continually in good works and charitable deeds toward the poor and the widows. Doctrinally the sermon dwells on the sovereignty of God over life and death, the confirming purpose of apostolic miracles, and the fulfillment of Christ's promise in John 14 that His disciples would do His works to the Father's glory. Pastor Rockhill notes how Peter's lodging with Simon the tanner foreshadows the passing away of the old ceremonial order and the gathering of Jew and Gentile into one body in Christ. By way of application, he calls the congregation to live faithfully for the Lord even in small, hidden acts of service, to rest not in signs and wonders but in the Spirit and the truth of God's written Word, and to bear witness so that Christ may draw many to Himself.