Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-27

ashes. say this because. in your
churches every Sabbath, and at your:
family affairs daily, trust, you pray
to God for the sick and suffering. 1t is
vet fresh in the memory OF us that the
whole civilized world was redoientl
with the prayers Of Christian people
for Grant and Garfield in their hours.
Of dreadful anguish. and yet cannot
be so harsh as to presume that Chris
tian people would indulge the impietyl
Of petitioning God for relief which they
questioned either His power or His
willingness to bestow.
1T is true you come a little tardily
to the Great Physician with your cher
ished sick, and some what, it must be
confessed, in the spirit OF the old elder
who prayed, o God. we come to Thee
because we have no other place to CO.
It is only after the doctors. patent nos
trums, seven-bark linament, mud
baths. cod liver oil and tepid water
have left you desolate and helpless that
you go to God, the infinite fountain of
light. joy and life, with your loved sick
ones, for the chances are many to one
that you pray with medicines in your
hands and doctors at your call.
All of you say, have said Thousand
times, In God we live, move and have
our being, but do you really believe
this? For 1t is simply equivalent to
saying, In God we have life, health and
Immortality. sometimes doubt
whether you do believe it, for you act
as If this beautiful declaration of the
allness of God We're "a promise made to
the ear, to be broken to the hope and
that, in fact, your life and health rest
in human aids, material things. the
dull. IMPLYING clods of earth. This will
not do: a moral belief that does not
find expression in act is not an intel
lectual conviction: you may deceive
others, possibly yourselves, but you
cannot deceive the infinite. submit
to you this simple proposition: If you
believe you live and move in God,
should you not. as a mere act OF INTEL
lectual integrity. of common honesty,
trust your life and health to their in
finite keeper?
Really, your lack of trust in Gods
healing power is not very strange; 1t is
the natural result of the ancestral opin-
ion spoke of a moment ago. Our faith
ers believed, and taught us to believe.
that God makes us sick. that God
makes us blind and deaf and lame, and
therefore we can easily understand how
reluctantly and doubtingly one who be-
lieyes that God Is the fruitful source of
all his sorrow and heartache would go
to Him with conffding petition for re-
lief from the very sorrows He has
wrought. And here Is the marked dis
tinction between the old churches
thought of God and our thought of Him.
Christian Scientists do not believe that
God makes you sick or blind or deaf or
halt, but we do believe that God is in.
finite love, the great physician who
heals all our diseases
The fact Is. my friends, our respec-
tive concepts of God are wide apart.
Christian Scientists do not believe that
Infinite goodness filled the world with
reprobates and sinners simply to give
Himself occupation In pardonng their
sins to the praise of His glorious
grace, or in torturing them with sick
ness. anguish and flame to the praise
of His glorious Justice but they do be-
lieve. and act upon the belief. that God
is infinite love, the bountiful source
and preserver of all life, the great ply
sician who heals all our diseases.
"Chrstian Scientists believe that
when Jesus went into the synagogue on
the Sabbath day and read from the
prophecy of Esaias respecting the office
of Christ, where it is written, The spir-
it of the Lord is upon me, because He
hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor; He hath sent me to heal
the broken-hearted, to preach deliver
ance to the captives, and recovering of
sight to the blind. to set at liberty them
that are bruised and closing the book
declared to the congregation, This day
is this scripture fulfilled in your ears
Christian Scientists insist that when
Jesus did this He thereby solemnly
made proclamation to all men, of all
time, of His God sealed ambassadors
ship, not only to praech the bospel but
also to heal the sick. break the shackles
of the bound and usher in the accepta
BILE year of the Lord And thus we have
clearly defined by prophecy and by the
unequivocal words OF Jesus the sub
stance, the spirit and practice of the
religion He established; a religion of
faith, works, decentralization from
mans oppression, from sickness, sin
and death; a religion OF ministry, cheer
and love. And Jesus literally fulfilled
His high commission, preached the gos-
pei, healed the sick, cleansed the lepers,
broke the letters of sin, and gave liber
ty to the bound. He taught His disciples
to emulate His example and told them
that the mighty works He did, and
greater, they should do. Who in the old
chrches will be so recklessly bold as to-
assert that Jesus did not mean what He
said ?"
Judge Ewing closed with a strong de-
Tense of Mrs. Eddy and her teachings
and with an eulogy of woman.
NOT COMING HOME.
Letter from Ed Vail says He Is Do
ing Well and Will Winter In
Alaska.
Mr.. j. D. Vail received long letter
this morning from his son, Mr.. Ed M.
Vail, who was recently injured while
near Cape Nome, Alaska, by the pre-
mature discharge of his gun and whose
arm was amputated three times. The
letter was brought down on the steamer
Lackma, which recently arrived, and
was commenced on Sept. 20 and fin
ished on Oct 5. Mr.. Vail devotes little
OF his letter to his own misfortune, but
says he had the best of care. He was