The Newtown bee., 1893-01-27

tor or the Congregational Churoh.-The Voice of Scripture and Many Witnesses.
 The above is the correct designation of the doctrine which one or two writers in these columns have taken the license to characterize as the "faith cure craze" Divine healing as applied to the body is no more faith cure than cleansing from sin as applied to the soul, is faith cure.
 1t is not faith that cures, nor faith in faith doctor, but the direct agency of divine power; hence it is popularly call- ed divine healing.
 The truth or falsity of this matt CT is not to be settled upon basis of science or speculation. It would be we'll enough to settle it upon such basis if it could be done, for even guess is as good as any if it only happens to hit, they say.
 But this question must be settled upon the
 BASIS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE and the testimony of history or fact.
 Does the Bible teach that God is able to heal the body? Everyone will answer in the affirmative. There are numerous examples of physical healing in both the Old and New Testaments. There is there fore no apriori reason why God cannot heal the body. We have given us in the New Testament the promise that the sick shall recover by the use of prescribed means, James 5:l4, l5, "Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the church G. c. the local congregation of which the patient is Il communicanD and let them pray over him, amounting him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him."
 The Lord shall raise him up and not any faith cure craze"
 THIS SCRIPTURE STANDS GOOD until the end of the age, and the wrath of man can ncuer suppress it,--it is Gods word.
 To any one who accepts the Bible as the infalliblc word of God, this passage alone is sufficient basis for faith in God as healer. Read also Matt. S:lG, r., Hs, 3O:2, 2, ps. lO3 B, |. And what is to be said as td the fulncss of Gods promis- c5 throughout His word, to answer the prayers of His children.
 Neither is this theme respectable peO- pie need dispute and abuse one another about
 Happily the means of settling this question in the affirmative are available. There is to-day great cloud of witness cs to Gods power to heal, and scores of the cases of healing are so definite and mar velous that
 EVEN THE MOST sCErTICAL are compelled to stand in silence in the presence of their testimony.
 Indeed the affirmative of this question has nothing to do but tC point to the Scriptures and cite the doubter to the re- covered patients. It can say with all con fldence, "come and see."
 Divine healing is fact; we know that it is fact The cool-headcd scientist may dsscct and speculate, and the light grade theologian may stand off at a dis tancc and rail, but the fact remains.
 You may call those upon whose bod ics God has laid His hand, ''gullibles" and 'foos ;'' and yet they rest upon the calm basis of fact, and they can answer, "Yes, we have become fools, Gas the Bible tells those who suppose themselves wise to do) that we may be wise, and we have been healed of consumption, the hy- cna of cancer has been slain, levers of all kinds have been rebuked, the deaf has been made to hear, the lame to walk and the blind to see.'
 TT IS NOT THEREFORE
 what any church, whether spelled with a big or q little c, teaches, nor what any NJ. b. or D. D. or little logician teaches or may teach, or believes or may believe; but it is what the word of God and the calm dignity of history bear their unequivocal testimony to.
 Of course there are always those who have built around themselves the iron wall of prejudice. Their dictum is, if ut tered, "I will not be convinced, and you may place absolute proof right under their noses, and if they cannot turn their heads, they will shut their eyes.
 They will not be convinced ''though one rose from the dead"
 AND THEY WILL NOT
 even read literature, which is designed to furnish the required light, because of the aforesaid prejudice. But to the readers of the BEE who are inquir- ing or may wish to inquire as to the truth of divine healing, the first thing to be- lieve as it seems to the present writer is the testimony of Scripture, and the other thing to believe is the testimony of those who have proved the promises of God.
 IF YOU ARE SINCERE
 therefore go to those who profess to know. To be concrete, go to Mrs Amos Hawley and Mrs George Robinson of Hawleyville. Go to Rev Henry Wilson, D. D., formerly associate pastor of St Georges (EpiscopaD church, N. r., Rev Dr Peck of Boston, 5. R. Wilmot, Esq, of Bridgeport, the little Bedding girl, and you will learn more about this subject from these witnesses than you will learn by whole life time of railing and spec ulation.
 There is not seintilla of proof on the negative side of this question. Where is the doubter who can affirm that there has not been single case of divine healing in modern times? Yet one ought to be absolutely certain that there is nothing in divine healing before he condemns it.. A correspondent said in THE BEE some time ago that "God can
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