The Newtown bee., 1896-11-13

The man or woman who, lying on bed
 of sickness in this community should send
 for the. minister and the elders of the
 church that they uight pray over him or
 her and auoiut them with oil in the name
 of the Lord A- Jymc, directs would be
 thought to be crazy by people in general
 Now am not saving one word against , the Use of medicine or the skill of the dcc- tor. think that man has no more right to expect God to heal him unless he l duys his part and takes the remediea that
 nature and science have found to be val | uabIc than he has 10 expect God to pro-
 long hi, life if he will persist in neither
 eating nor drinking. There i@ suicide in l both cases. ExpeJicncc has proved that
 aconicc is good to control fever and that
 castor oil has its uses. What want you
 to notice is that our n0-faith to-day LEADS Is IN SICKNESS TO TRUST THE DOC
 TOR AND TO DISTHuaT GOD.
 1 Faith iu the creature has superseded
 faith in the Creator. And again migh, David stand, n- he stood before BcIshaz Itr of old, and ch1rge us as he charged that ancient monarch, ''The God in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways hast thou a9t gl0riLed." Mankind
 with all their modem discoveries talk great deal about the exactDess of sci ouc4s. One might think from some of i the remarks of scientific men that the re-
 ~ults of the blow pipe and the test tube | were always exact and iufaIlibIe. But l 'Cjs not so. One day some one discovers argon. Another day some one else finds l how plentiful is aluminium. And previ- l Ous calculations are all OVerthrOwu. But ] from generation to generation God is al- ways the same. uhe Psalmist cries out "Lord thou hast been our dwelling place i iu all generations, and Gladstone writing i to America of Armenian troubles de
 clares, II do not wholly abandon the l hope that out of this darkness light will arise, but the matter rests with the AL
 mighty, to whom surely all should ad dress feryent prayers in behalf of his suf ferng creatures" Our age brides itself
 on it's tendencies to get at the bottom of l things. Yet when you knock the prop of God out from under human life, man 1 is henceforth walking on a stormy sea,
 with no Lord Jesus to reach out a sus-
 taining hand to him as he did to Peter of
 old, as he was sinking. When we see the
 results of investigations in criminol0gy
 and the constant tendency of evil men to banish God from their thought ought we not to learn to
 TAKE A PRIMER GRASP ON GOD OUR SELVES.
 | l believe that the irreverent and flip i pant treatment of the Holy Book and
 holy things by the modern savant in the
 college and university brings a curse up.
 on the desperado in the slums. Some
 wise man has said, ''Uncertain ways un-
 safest are, and doubt greater mischief
 than despair" And Shakespeare, called 1 the keenest analyst of the human mind
 declares "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win l by fearing to attempt" Oh my fellow Christians does Jesus Christ see in your hearts firm faith in Himself and his word? Are you acting as though you be- lieyed that the Lord was to commend or l condemn you for what you are doing 7? l Are you as prOfessed followers of the Christ ready tJ render up an account to- day of your life? You may have seen that little quotation from Howells which reads 'I thought how terrible if were seen, just as in will and deed had always been, and if this were the fate that must face at the last day and all else were Gods grace :hOw lnust shrink and cover before them there, stripped naked to the soul and beggared, bare of every rag of seemingl" And yet beloved "All things 1 are naked and open before him with whom 1 we have to do.'' But does not our no I faith try to put God far away so that he will not see our unworthy lives? How l then shall we act so that Christ shall fl ud | faith on the earth. Shall it not be by l seeking for it? The disciples said Lord | increase our faith, and you and will | make large acquisition of faith when we seek it as we live better ourselves and trust other men more.
 BELIEVE THATEYEN THE DoUBTERs want to have more faith. It was Goethe who said "If you have any faith give me for heaven's sake share of iti Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I l have plenty of my own" Better Chris tian living will give more faith in Jesus Christ in the earth. If every professed {