The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-15

NONtIS 'plCkueSS rs wen as GIN.
or late there has been earnest effort to
restore to modern Christianity the lost
charism or extraordinary gifts of tho
Spirit described in 1 Cor xii. iii. Tho
lrvingitcs, recently organized under the
name of the Catholic Apostolic Church,
profess to have recovered these gifts by
restoring the various orders OF a complex
siasticism-apostles, prophets, evan
CYCLISTS and pastors. There is good evidence
that several persons, mostly women,
were endowed with the gift OF tongues.
anu some remarkable cases of nstantane.
Gus healing were attested in the early
stages of the movement. between 1928
and 1878 More recently there has been
Il very widespread inquire about healing
ny faith 1t is taught by some in various
evangelical churches that the atonement
covers sickness as well as sin and that
any Invalid may rs confidently trust for
healing as the pcnitent trust, for the
pardon OF sin; in other words the grace
OF faith attainabc by all is the only re-
quisitc to healing every disease Hence,
we infer that every sick person is. to II
certain extent, an unbeliever and response
BILE for his own continued sickness. The
sick man is Il rascal, was the vigorous
Saxon in which DR., Samuel johnson ex-
pressed the reductio nd absurdem to
which he brought the advocates of this
doctrine in his day.
Let us now examine the text alleged
To prove that the atonement conditionallv
removes all sickness as well rs all sin.
lsa ILL.,, the Il. V, margin. '.Surely
he hath borne our Sickness This is
che of the items OF the suierings of the
coming Messiah. 1t is correctly translate
Ell III Matt. viii, 17,-'and bare our sick
ness The best scholarship rejects the
idea OF atonement here. The idea is
poetlcal, says Meyer, who adds, "When
their ailments are taken away from the
diseased, the marvellously compassionate
One who does this stands forth as he who
bears the burden lifted from the shoulders
OF others This is the iigurntive way of
saying he healed them under circum.
stances which awakened painful SYM
pathy We are to think of n n pure md
sensitive soul brought into contact with
forms of suffering, and beholding them as
n specimen OF II millionfold more misery
IN grooming world. To the heart Of
Jesus an our woes and pains We're pres
ent and they pierced Him through with
many sorrows. Read carefully the ac-
count of single days work of Christ in
Luke ~. 33--ll, the healing of the de-
honinc IN the synagogue, Of Peters wiie's
mother III Peter - house; and mt cvcntide
let your imagination individualiye the
vast number, sick with divers diseases
crowding the house and ward and street.
on every one" Of whom Jesus laid His
healing hands With patient love the
Houd PHYSICIAN takes up each new case,
and bears away the burden of manifold
diseases by His mighty power Yet ms n
man He must have felt the nervous strain
OF such draft upon His sympathies.
rms explains why Isaiah enumerated
hcanS among the suffering OF the MIN
OF sorrows, and in close relation to His
being bruised for our iniQuities. prefa.ur-
ing the atonement, while healing is NOT
included therein, but is rather an evil
dence of His Messianic character and of
Ills Sonship to God.
me dliiiculties besetting the subject of
healing by faith disappear. when the dis.
tinction between the grace of faith and the
gift of fuith is clearly understood and ac
knowIedged. All Christians believe i'm
praying for the sick and in praying with
faith III humble submission to the Divine
VIII. THIS Is the only petition which the
true child of God can present unless he
is systematically endowed with the as
surancc that the healing in answer to
PRAYER is his will, or, in other words. I'M
less the Holy spirit inspires in him the
git OF mountain removing faith defined
-. 'cS'Vt us tic ihWrouSht assurance
that "od IN answer To prayer will grant
this or that petition
The following are some points OF dler-
ence between these two kinds of faith.
This inith is something different from
the grace of faith. We note the following
points.
l. The grace of faith is morally obliga-
tory upon every soul having a knowledge
OF Christ, and the absence OF such faith
IS the sround of condemnation Thes.,
H.. -
. The gift of faith is 'not required by
any one bit is sovereignty. bestowed by
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