Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-02
SPIRITUAL THERAPEUTICS,
What Is Claimed for Divine
Healing.
The Advocates Of the System il
Convention.
Some Claims for the System Which
VIII Be observation-disclosures In
India-A Peculiar
Theory. W

A Christian Alliance convention has
been held lately in the First Baptist
church. 1t closed yesterday, when
Rev. DR.. Simpson occupied the greater
part of the time with his views on
Divine Healing, of which brief &C.
count is herewith given:
There must, OF course, first of all be
the surrender. l remember a time in
nv lie when determined to be healed.
I Gould not get it. I had to be willing
to remain sick unless He wanted me
otherwise. Then He took hold of it and
I was healed. But He does want you to
be healed. Have you ever thought how
it grieves God to have you think He is
more able to heal you than willing? /
have had woman say to me that she
knew she was going to be healed be-
cause she had had it revealed to her by
the Holy Spirit. She had seen God
standing over her healing her. She was
a good woman and l did not doubt her
sincerity, but some how Icouldn't take
hold of that kind of assurance. l saw
that woman grow weaker and finally
sink into the grave.
have Just as much faith that Jesus ie
able to heal our bodies az he is to save
our souls. Faith rests on the word OF
God, and His word only.
DR.. Simpson then stated his own ex-
perience in accepting the beliefof divine
healing. II just took this little book
and said, Lord, / bind myself az q sacred
duty to believe everything find here,
and do everything l find here If think
you command it," And in twenty-four
hours, l was as sure Of divine healing as
was of the redemption through Christ.
All that / saw was this, that Jesus
had promised to do 1t and / held him to
his word, and he fulfilled it. The
promise OF Jesus was founded upon the
cross of Calvary. Then divine healing
is not merely matter of promise, but
it was purchased by the blood of Jesus.
It was one of the things that he bought
on the cross for me. This great truth of
the healing of sickness is based upon the
redeeming works of Christ. He came to
Calvary not only to bear our sins, but
to bear our sicknesses, and bearing them
to take them away from us.
Mr.. Fuller then told some of his ex-
periences with divine healing while in
India. "It is just the same in India
that it is here. During my ten years Of
experience there have seen healing in
my own life, in our own children, in the
children Of the schools and in the native
Christians.
"In my own experience have been
healed more than once while in Indio.
/ have been healed of poison, have
been healed of fever. Then from Ia
grippe. / was so bad with it that
my friends were very anxious about me
and thought could not live. Some
dear brother said to me, you are sacri-
tlcing your life to theory. While they
were talking about it just kept looking
TO the Lord. knew better than to con-
tend, I simply let them say what they
would. / eaid, Lord, I Just want to do
Thy WILL The next day Mrs. Fuller
had planned to 60 away for the summer.
me in the condition / was in. l said
mo, do not change your plans and stay
at home. 1t would look as if we were
in doubt whether He would heal me.
So she went, and I don't suppose she
had reached the station mile away
before felt that was we'll. God wants
us to be tried and he wants us to stand
it, and did"
The testimony of those who think
they have experienced divine healing ol
sickness was then heard. There were
some who had been sick for years and
had tried every means within Their
power for the recovery of health, and
finally had taken it to God, and, they
claimed, had been healed instantly
There were twenty-five who gave the
most detailed testimony of this kind.
DR.. Simpson then answered number
of questions an idea of the worth of the
theory he follows can be judged from
the vagueness of the answers as a rule
Can we expect God to do for swhat
we can do for ourselves?
"Well, we think we can do a lot more
for ourselves than we can. l suppose
you mean taking care OF your health
You can't do that. tried to do that TO-
seventeen years and broke down com
pletely. Then l went to God and HI
healed me-"
Is it right to make covenant with
the Lord that we will never take AM
medicine, live or die?
II don't think so. I have never mad
any such covenant. But why should
make a covenant that I won't 90 tC
anyone but the Lord? Why, the Lore
is the best physician there is. VIII,
should I want to 60 to any other?"
Is it always necessary to confess ou
healing?
"It is, if you are afraid to confess it
If you are scared about it God will pu
you right to the front, and you will hav'
no peace until you do it. After b,
healed my body l didn't speak of i
every time I preached. began in ,
very different way. Our work is to sav,
the souls of men. Divine healing is no
the principal thing with sinners. So
preached about Christ and salvation
and when found poor sick man tina
could trust the Lord, then l told him o
my healing and he could do the same j
he chose"
How may we distinguish between ou
own Judgment and the leading Of th
spirit?
"Well, don't think we need lose ou
judgment when the spirit leads us.
think the spirit leads us very Otter
through our Judgment"
Can we trust God fully for healin
when we are taking medicine?
81 have never found it possible to d
80. You try If you can. I never foun
1 could 60 up stairs by the old stairwa
and the elevator at the same time. Med
icine heals you from without; God heal
you from within. /"