The Newtown bee., 1900-02-02
itself and draw it's own conclusions.

THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD
are yet to be made the kingdoms Of our
Lori and Saviour Jesus Christ. How is
thi8 to be done? Not by fiat issued
from the Court of Heaven and enforced
by Gods will, but by the use of means
which God has appointed, the simple
means of preaching and teaching and
healing the sick By the use of proper
remedies. Command that these stones
be made bread" is the suggestion Of the
Arch-tempter tall these things will I
give Thee, il Thou wilt fall down and
worship me" that ie, take the cross-lots
method of winning the world, take the
pyrotechnic. fl 4sh-light method that, by a
tremendous display of divine power, shall
win thousands where the use of the sim
pie Gospel means would only WIN one.
God has given us drugs and medicines
as means to employ. We dig down into
the earth and there we fod coal buried ;
we learn that this coal, on burning, will
give heat, snd we conclude that God 10
His wise providence has caused it to be
stored there, that we may use 1t as a
means to heat our homes. Oil exists in
great wells underground; we learn that
this oil gives light, and we conclude that
God has designed us to use this oil as q
means to light our homes. Many of our
most delicious vegetables have come to
their present state Of perfection by con-
slant selection and development; many
Of our choice lowers have come fl I'm
noxious weeds. Men have worked out
these results for themselves by study and
by use of faculties which God had first
given to them. If man had been content
TO take what God first gave and as He
first gave it to man, our lives would be
shorn of many OF the pleasures whioh
they now enjoy. Minerals are in the
ground; but il we let them lie there or
used them just "a we get them from the
ground, our arts and sciences would van
ish away. Drugs and medicines come in
line with all the rest. They are God Civ
en- remedies they are means to be en-
ployed by man with all the skill and
knowledge that wisely-trained min
can employ. There is no special reason
why they should be tabooed and label ID
as inventions Of the Evil One.
Divine Healing Is against reason and
1t is against experience, too. The work
Of medical missions is testimony against
it; the skill and success Of all honorable
physicians is testimony against it. We
refuse to believe, even at the dictate Of
the champions of Divine Healing or Of
any other class, that physicians, taken
together, are knaves and raacals, or even
that they are misguided fools. Some of
the best men that have walked the earth
have been physicians, who, taking God
with them IN the practice Of their pro-
fession and working for something me- re
than sordid pelf, have been great powers
for good. The Christian physician takes
his place alongside the Christian minis
ter in the vantage ground he holds
FROM WHICH TO MOULD THE LIVES OF
MEN.
The Christian ministry altogether dis
claims the notion that it has the sole OPP
portunity to turn men into the paths of
righteousness and peace.
Now what I am going to say may sur
prise you; but have reflected upon it
and l know it Is true. Wonderful cures
have been wrought by prayer alone with
out the Intervention of medicine or ply
stefan (and that is Divine Healipe). /
have the biography at home of DR. A. J.
Gordon, than whom the Church of Jesus
Christ in this country has not known s
saintlier man; he was pastor OF the CLAIR
endon Street Baptist church, Boston. In