The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-02
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heartaches would go I'd Him with'a con
fiding petition for relief from the very
sorrows He has wrought. And here is
| the marked distinction between the old
church's 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 INFINITE love, the
great physician who heals all our dis
eases.
christian Scientists believe that
when Jesus went into the temple and
read from the prophecy Of Esaias con-
/ corning Himself and His mission to
earth where II is written. The spirit of
| the Lord Is upon Me, because He has
anonted Me to preach the gospel to the
/ poor; He hath sent me to heal the
broken hearted, to preach deliverance
to the captives and recovery of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that
are bruised and closing the book. said
to the congregation, This day is this
Scripture fulfilled in your ears'-Chris-
tian Scientists insist that when Jesus
did this He thereby made proclamation
to all the world Of His God sealed am
bassadorship not only to preach the
gospel. but to heal the sick, break the
shackles of the bound and usher in the
acceptable year of the Lord
And he demonstrated by His thirty
years pilgrimage on the earth His de-.
votion to His high commission. He
preached the gospel, healed the sick,
cleansed the lepers, broke the letters
of six and gave liberty to the bound.
He told His disciples that the works
which He did-clearly meaning His
ministrations to suffering, stumbling,
cringing, crying men--they should do
also, and greater ones.
will any one of the churches assert
that Jesus did not mean that His dis
ciples CT old time should do the works
He did, that His declaration was "a
promise to the ear. to be broken to the
hope? In Jesus last words ON earth
after the tragedy of the cross and af-
ter the triumph over the tomb, He
said to the eleven, His chosen faithful
disciples: Go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature
And these signs shall follow them
that believe; in My name they shall
cast out devils; they shall speak with
IiCW lCliS uco, llley Shall lay IldlluS OH
the sick and they shall recover
"Here these farewell words of our as
cended Lord mark xvi, Is, IT, 1S)
spoken to you andsto me- If you be-
lieve in My name you shall cast out
devils. If you believe in My name you
shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover Christian Scientists ac-
cept this call to duty as addressed to
them, and by the most crucial test by
thousands upon thousands of absolute
cures, covering the whole range Of
mortal aff1iction, have demonstrated the
efficacy of metaphysical healing and,
therefore, the absolute truth of Chris
tian Science.
I have little time and less disposition
to defend Christian Science or the mag
nlf1cent woman who, in hope and prayer
and love, found it in Gods revelation to
man from assaults made upon either.
OF Mrs. Eddy ! need only say, of one of
the tens of thousands of beneficiaries
of the truth she revealed, that time to
its utmost limit will be too brief for |
the world to discharge to her its ut |
most gratitude. Her life and devotion |
to God and humanity, her sacrifices of |
self for others, hef ministrations to |
weary suffering, dying men, her long |
years of fearless and faultless associa- |
ton with perfect good are her invinci-
BILE panoply against every shaft of en-
Wy, ingratitude or malice. And of the |
science of life, immortal life, she has /
revealed it enough to know that, if it I
is not true, by the eternal decree of God
it will come to naught, and that, if it |
is true, all the powers of earth and hell |