The Newtown bee., 1900-02-02


oundatiou and start. No one outside of
he Mormon faith who has investigated
he religious system Of the Latter-D Day
saints would think Of saying that this
Of deception and villainy
'ame. from God, yet the smooth-tongued
dormon missionaries will say, hold
ng up Bible in their hand, "We do not
ssk you to accept anything which we cam
aot prove by this book" verify believe
hat If some one should start out to get q
following, having for the rallying prin-
,ipie OF faith the statement that the
Devil was a saint, he would prove, to the
of many, his statement from |
the Bible, saying, forsooth, ''Does not the |
Bible declare that the Devil appears as
an angel of lightY' The fact that the |
Bible states that
THE DEVIL Is THE FATHER OF LIES
and has been murderer from the be-
ginning would be brushed away, lust
al the Mormon missionaries brush
away all objections to their sense.
lass doctrines. The apostles,
we are told in Matthew, SO say those who
are proving the claims of Divine Healing
from the Bible, were given the power to
hesl diseases. That ia true; they needed
atteststion as they went about on their
work. This power to cure disease was
their attestation, their credel tials; it
gave them hearing. In the same verse,
however, that we are told the apo ii
were given the. power to heal diseases,
we ara also told that they were given
20 Wer to raise the dead. No class o.
Christ's followers has the power to raise
the dead to-day. Is it not natural liz
ference that If the power to raise the
dead has been lost, the power to heal
diseases has been lost too?
Christ used means in working His mir
aelts. The means were not necessary 10
Htm. He could as easily have wrought
His miracles without them; but chal-
lenge any one to show nae a single IT,
stance where He did not employ 10 ne
kiad of means. To the man with wither-
ed hand He said, Stretch it out" TO the
parslytic He gave the command :" Arise,
take up thy bed and walk" others who
were to be cured He sent to the pool OF
Siloam; the lepers were sent to the
priest, and, as they were going, they
were cleansed. Hszekish was sick and
prayed that he might recover, but he did
not forget to put poultce on his boils,
Timothy was probably q dyspeptic and
Paul advised him to take li1tls wine for
the stomach's cake. Paul said that rne
inspiration of his labor was "By al
means to save some"
The Scriptures plainly teach that sick
ness is not always an unnecessary evil
that some sickness is permitted by Coo
for our discipline, that some sickness il
even sent by God that from it some spir
itusl good may come. Satan harasset
poor Job, but not until God had givel
permits sion; yet we see that out of hi
distresses Job became much better
man. David cried: Before l was at
fcted, l went astray." We are distinct
Iy told that God caused the death of tn
child of Bath=heba. Paul prayed tina
his thorn might be taken away, he pray
ed thrice that this might be done. 1t wa
not taken away, but Paul lived loni
enough to praise God that the thorn wa
left In his flesh. When the two sister
Mary and Martha sent in haste afte
Jesus, who was In Pc. &c, that He nigh
come and restore their brother Lazaru
who was sick. Jesus didsnot hasten q
the summons, but "abode two days still
in the same place where He was" Blu
out of His remaining far greater goo,
came than il He had healed LGzarus 0
his sickness. The faith of the sister
was wonderfully strengthened; the,
| were led to believe 10 Je3us as Oae VIII
il now the Resurrection and the Lite
and the miracle in Bethany stands as tn
crown of all Jesus wonderful works
stimulating the faith of the ages ant
bringing solace to many broken heart
God does not busy Himself with tn,
DEVILS children; His time is fully EN-
ployed IN the training of His own
Whom the Lord loveth He chastenetf
and scourgeth every son whom He re
ceiveth."
IF YOU ARE CHAsTENED WITH SICKNESS
it may be a mark that you are the yer,
| child of God. The theory that every
sick Christian il a sinful Christian hal
caused many pillow to be a thorny one
that should have been haloed by The
glory of God.
What Ia the use, anyway, in all thii
controversy? Do we know what we are
quibbling about? Reduced to its Lowest
terms the point at issue Ia this Which Ia
the m ore effective, prayer plus means OF
prayer minus means? Whether we en-
ploy physician or not, whether we USE
medical means or not, we ought not tt
| forget to pray. Prayer is power. Pray.
er is that which moves the hand which
moves the world. Prayer is the believer
privilege. The Book of Kings does no
give US the secret Of Elijsh's power, the
Epistle of James does. HE prayed
earnestly that it might not rain, and
rained not on the earth by the space O.
| three years and six months. And he pray
ed again and the heaven gave rsir
aud the earth brought forth her fruit
If we employ a physician, we ough
earnestly to pray that God will bless the
means which are used for our recovery
and which VIC believe are God-given
means.
But what about the text? We almost
forgot that we had ons, and yet 1T has
been the suggestion of all this thought
L give it the last word. L would like to