West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-01-03
4 BIG BOIL CURED.
MIGHTY powEn OF PRAYER
BeEekioh's Experience Teaches the
World a Lesson.

ihNis mare heard tty prayer; bchOtd,
itcu heat thee. Ani Chey fO-E 0ndfud N
on ne boil and Ne recos 4ed I'll Kings.
Xxx, ., =
Luxurious living Is not healthy. The soc
pn1 generation OF X ngs. AMI Quechs, an
1oIus' ohd fr'nces is apt n he brainicss and
mnaai Ihe second crop OF grass is almost
always short. Royai blooi Is generally
scrotu Gus. You win not b5 surpr .sed. then.
uo near that King Bezekiah had disorders
nn.Sh broke out IN n carbuacie, tirulent and
seashiuL The Lord to.d him he must die:
ne ala not want 10 die. He turned his face
20 the WAL, so that lbs prayer would not
ue interrupted, and cried 70 God for his life.
1ou heard the prayer and answered IL, say-
my; b,hoid, 4 Will heal thee" But there
was human ihstTumenta,ity 60 be en-
pioyeda This carbuncle needed n "ca.a-
plasm:' That Is "A tough word wo use 10
SHOW how much we know. IL I'm tho bull
PIT we always used words the peoble under-
Stood, we never should have any feputatiou
Tor learning Well, this c%arLuncle needed a
'cataplasm,n which is a pou tice. Your oil
moiheib VIC doctored her own children in
tue time when physicians were not so plenty
as they are now, will tell you that tho very
best poultice is a fig, and that was what she
used upon tho carbnnele Of King II zekiah.
tno power OF God, accompanied by this
human fundamentally. cured the King.
AZ sickness comes to your household. ft will
depend entirely upon ventilation, good dict.
and the skill OF the doctors, as 10 whether
your child gets well, The father might pray
~ DN.nU NIAI Kali NKlI
III would not have any effect upon the case.
~ squlhs, bellaconna, p%aregoric and Cruel do
the work, your child will get well; IL not,
not. There is a cast iron God seated AT the
mead OF the universe, helding IA the cold
grasp OF his metal 0ngefs 4 band OF law from
which nothing can break away.
Men n women OF God, at this point the
great battle of Christianity Is to be fought.
The great foe of Christianity to-day is ration-
ahsm. that comes out from Our Schools. md
universities, and magazines and newspapers.
TO scof Mt Bible truth and caricature the old
religion or Jesus. II saws Jesus is not God.
Tor u Is impossible TO expIan how He can be
Irvine ana human at the same time. Tho
blb,e Is not inspired, for there Rre things IN
: that they don like. Regeneration is a
farce; There is good efoAgh i'm us. and the only
HIM l. to bring it out. Development is the
woId@deveiopmsnt. The Garden of Eden is a
lairy story and no more to be believed than
the arabian Nights" or 'GuIhvsr's .frav-
els or "RobinScn CrusoeH We all started
as balloons, aud are blood relations TO that
monkey sluitming about on the top Of that
hand organ. a2arus was not dead when
Chlrst pretended TO raise him; he was only
playing dead. The water was not chnnged
into Vine at the wedding, but Chfist brought
I'm some wine that lie had Found elsewhere 10
make tip the deficiency. Christ did not walk
on the sea, but on The shore, so near that il
seemed as il He really were on the water.
What is still more alarming is, that Chris
tan men dare not meet this filictlH. There
Is not one Christian man IN five that can. UNI
AAfAAN AANAfNAtlitAA III lit Itotit0 OF All InlS rail-
lery, saying: II believe i'm tho who.e Bible.
and in every single statement that it makesb
christian men try to soften the Bible down
TO suit tho skepiics. The skeptics sheer at he
dividing o tn Red Sea aud the Christian
goes TO explaining that tho wind blew d hur.
ricane from ono direction n good while,
unit | all the water piled up; and besides, that
was low water anyhow, and SO the Israei-
ttes went through without aHy trouble.
why not be fl. nix and say: 81 believe The
Lord God Almighty came TO the brink OF the
Red Sea and with His right arm swung back
the pillows on the right side, aud with His
ieit arm swung back the pillows on the
lett side. and the abashed water stood
op huniTeis OF feet high, while
through their & assy wall tho sea
monsters gazed with affrighted eyes on the
TO you saying: How about Jonah and the
whalei Do you really believe that fish
itoryt There never wers so many Nan
lucket fisherman after one whale as there
nave been rationa lists hingiug harpoons at
That That one wb bp19 fbaev sea To monster and from
light ten thousand souls TO psrdit.on. A
tSeptlc tells you that Jonah would have been
Killed IN tho process of swallowing, and thnt
he could not anyhow, have lived three days
N such close quarters, but would have be n
,motnered by the Ioor Ventilation. How
the good Christians Immediately 20 TO work.
ana try TO explain the whole thing 10y natural
laws, so as TO phase the rationaiis,s. and
gay that n whale is an air breath
Nh ioh AhAb every lkEie WHO 1t
comes to the surface, and that the whale
hat %swulioNod Jonah did tho same
thlng and thus got n supply for itself and
Lor the prophet. Why not rather say that
5od can do anything; and He could take
Jonah through the whales throat, although
Vie throat would not nave cen half large
enough ordinarily TO let him yass. and couil
oaVe Kept him alive in the whale live years
without any air. il Ho had chosen TO! Who
ma ie the wha ef God. Who made Jonah
God. Then lie could DO anything lie pleased
with either OF them.
The moment you begin to explain away
the miracu GUS and supernatural YOU ,urren-
1er the Bile. lake the sup. rna ural ont Of
me Bible, and you make 10 n collection OF
lies and humbugs, IN pre-, renee to which /!
e1oose tsop's fnb!es. They are what ih,y
pretend TO be-fablts But If. after MI that
Inc BIB O declares, Jesus is not Col, aud
T T6e gatey TaS no, ,n,g@d iron ~ deaL IL
~ "tttt wiz hrt TURNED mo vine, ana the
Red sea was not divided, and I'm answer 10
prayer Helekinh's boil dl not get well. then
the Bible Is the worst fraud ever perpetrated
In Gods universe.
Nh my f%r.enis have we boon mistnkenl
Toes Got hear and answer prayer, or does
lie mott Hczekiah was sick unto death: he
prayed for his life; Col heard him. and
atlei nfsocu years to that lifetime. The
prayer save him the lump OF figs applet
bong merely the G-Od-appointsd human in
srumeutality.
But" says some one. II don't believe the
bibie.| All then we viii have 70 part com
bHJ tUi iohF OF I'VE minutes. for 10 IS useless
70 Try 10 argue with any man with whom
you cannot stand upon common groun1. In
any argument. II you would be- successful.
therc must be some common data TO sfnrt
from 10 b. foolish 20 try 10 prove % a man
thaJ twice three are six provided he does
not admit the multiplication tables. or thot
Two and two are four. II ne does not admit
the addition table.
Mv FIRST address therefore, e. 20 those who
DO believe IN the Bible want TO toll Won
that prayer is the mightiost Of ali remedies.
ana that the aHopathic and homeopathic
ana b1e electric schools will vet nckuovlodve
~. Here ore two cases Of sickness precisely
alike the Same Kind n moiic NO is vivrn 10
both N them. and in the same nuanttieq
me one patient r~ccovCrg. and the other docs
not Whyf Cot hloseos the on, remedy
mud does not bless Tho other. PRAYER baa
helped many n laundering doctor fhrouoh
win q case That would have otherwise become
compcteIv u~nmanaIeahle. There iq eueh n
thins a. Gospel hygiene. ns Christian phar.
macy, aq divine matoria medica. Tint
i9 p Zoo ish man who iu case Of sick
ness, goes only 20 human resources. wien
we have these Instances ~ The Lords
nclp in the sick room. Before Won call
the doctor while BE IS there and inter- he
goes away look no ~ Him who cured Hcza.
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