Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-04-20

QndlSputeQ ground. 1t was III HarulOHS
with this recognized law of our being
that Jesus cured diseased humanity. tHe
laid down his life for men''-an express
sion that has no reference to his DEATH
In the tenth chapter of Johns gospel He
calls himself the Good Shepherd, and af-
firms that he lays down his life for the
sheep. One definition of the words rem
dered here to SFlay down" is to impart, to |
put into or within any one. In another |
place it is so used in reference to the Di- |
vine life, as ST will put my Spirit upon |
or into him. Mat. XII: 10.
In that sense He every day laid down,
or impaired his life, to diseased humani-
ty, and He taught his deeiples or scholars
to do the same, to cure all manner of dis
ease and sickness among the people,
power that ought to have continued in
the Church to this day; and would, if the
charity or love from which it sprang had
not died out.
He gave his life a ransom for many, or,
by this importation of sanative virtue
and vital force, He delivered multitudes
from diseased states of mind and body
Thus, men were saved by Him; not by
His death, as men have blindly supposed,
but as Paul AYERS, ''much more by His
life." Rom. w: 8.
He employed, in bis benevolent mission
to the unhappy and suffering, all the
means through which life is transmissi-
BILE from one person to another. He some
times even cured disease by taking it up
on himself. Himself took our infrmi-
ties and bore our Sickness" Mat. TX: II.
This did not destroy the calm happiness of
His life nature; although for doing it an
ignorant world afterward Esteemed him
smitten of God and afflicted" From this
sympathetic bearing of human griefs, and
carrying the sorrows and pains of men in
! His own person, sprang up in subse-
quent age the great theological error of a
viearious atonement for Him. His cures
were no miracle, or departure from the
established order of nature, as He him
self AYERS. They exhibit the action of a
higher law, the dominion of mind over
matter Everything that is done is effect
ed in harmony with some law of Nature !;
some law of mind or matter, and in it the
relation of cause and effect. To under
stand the law by which it is done, is to be
able to do it. Hence, Jesus declares res
pecting his wonderful works, which were
mostly those of healing the bodies and
minds of the people, who fiocked to him
from every part of the land of the Jews,
'FThe works which do shall ye do also,
4 and greater works than these shall ye do,
| because 90 to nv Father''
The power. of curing disease was con
fered by the Christ upon the Church, not
as transient circumstance, attending the
| introduction of Christianity into the
world, but as a perpetual inheritance. 1t
was not so much gift to individuals as
an invariable attribute of vital faith
The Protestant clergy, in order to excuse
and account to the world for their spirit
ual impotency, have strenuously argued
that the gift was confined to the chozen
twelve, or to the seventy deciples, or al
most, to the first century of the Christian
age. But, without any limitation as tc
time or place, the risen Jesus affirms
'tThese signs shall follow them that be-
lieve. In my name they shall cast out
demons; they shall speak w1tff~peN
tongues; they shall take up serpents, ans
if they drink any deadly thing, it shall
not hurt them; they shall lay hands Oh
the sick, and they shall recover.' Mari
XVI: II, 18.
This wonderous power is not something
superadded to man s natural possessions
but it is only the development of pow
er arising from popularity of menta
structure, by which an individual is nat
urally fitted for the work Of healing.
If Jeses is viewed in the highest reve
lation of the Godhead to the world, an,
was God manifest in the flesh, and in thi
character went about doing good to tn
souls and bodies of men, ''healing al
manner of sickness and disease anon;
the people, the highest angel ought no
to deem it beneath his dignity or out o
order to follow his example.
All those who worship Jesus as Il God
as an incarnation of the Divinity, as tn
word made flesh and dwelling among us
ought to deem it the highest moral at
tainment of a worshipper to be like the Be
: ing he endorses. He spent much more 0
} his time healing the sick, and ministerin
to minds diseased, than in the devotiona
exercise of singing hymns and sayin
, prayers. He did both these, but it wa
= evidently a secondary matter, to be al
tended to when no higher use was to b
, accomplished; and it ought not to be in
{ proper for redeemed spirits to lay asid
r the golden harp, on which they are SUI
/. posed to play so skillfully, and exchang
! the pleasures of music and devotion 70
2 the higher and diviner enjoyment of re
lieving the ills that their earthly friend
are subject to.
! To do the works of Jesus cannot b
: deemed an impossibility by any one VIII
has faith, though like grain of mustar
. seed. In his plain promise and declaratio
! ''The works that do, shall ye do, alst
C and greater works than these because
go to my Father
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