The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-03-09

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a mn, . ~ tom the drum OF the ear lie
.i. ,nd ;nharmony, discord, OF ldi
illauO' is 80, en- fl,e nerves. created for song
ring' no,n r,ot for aches and groans.
SrS.,. S,,u ,,or really believe, or think y9u
-i:S ~" ,bat God has the power 10 20
~ ond vou also believe that Oou
.'i;if,e 10 exercise that power, dllu
Le,i 1he sick, give Joy ior soiio",
IlesI t tor CRYING roses for ashes. say
p.S'' ~ hscause. in your churches every
slShs.h e.liS md at your family altars
dailv. | trust. you pray 10 Oou III, io IN
sick and suffering IL is ye. ,.bole
The memory OF us all tnat une y Nh" ~
civilized world was redeem WIZ
nrayers OF Christian people LOT uiSmii uiif.,i
and Garfield in their hours oil urgau.uhl
anguish; and yet / cannot De so nalJn
ss TO presume that Christian peeople
would indulge the impiety OF peutiion-
mo God for relief which they question:
I'd either His power or His Willingness
10 bestow. 1t is true you come a littie
tardiIy TO the Great Physician WIN
vour cherished sick, and somewhat, II
yrust be confessed in the spirit oi the
old elder who prayed, 20 God we come
10 Thee because we have no other place
10 90" Il is only after the doctors,
natent nosrums, seven-bark liniment,
mud baths. electrical shocks, blue glass,
nio-nut bread, cod liver oil and tepid
water have left you desolate and hope
less. that you 60 to God, the INFINITE
fountain OF light, JOY and lie, with
your loved sick ones, and even then,
not trusting God for the relief you ask,
for the chances are many to one that
you pray with medicines in your pock-
ct and doctors at your call
All OF you say, have SAID thousan9
times. I'm God we live, move, ana
have our being" but do you really be
lieve this? For it is simply equivalent
to saying. IN God we live, have our
health and immortality ~ ! sometimes
doubt whether you do believe It, Tor
YOU act as II this beautiful declaration
Of the Allness OF God were a promise
made to the ear, to be broken to the
hope: and that, in fact, your lie and
health rest in human aids, material
things. the dull, IMPLYING clods OF
earth. This will not do; a moral be-
lief that does not find expression IN act
is not an intellectual conviction; you
may deceive others, possibly your
selves, but you cannot deceive the In
finite. / submit to you this simple
propositions II you believe you live
and move in God, should you not, as
mere act OF intellectual integrity, OF
common honesty, trust your life and
health 20 their infinite Keeper?
Really, your lack OF trust in God S
| l.. fNNaW
is the natural result OF the ancestral
opinion | spoke Of a moment ago
Our fathers 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 believes that God is the fruitful
source OF all his sorrow and heartache,
would 90 TO him with a con6ding petit
ton for relief from the very sorrows
! He has wrought And here is the
marked distinction 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 be-
lievc that God is infinite Love, 'the
| Great Physician who heals all our dis
eases"
You ask for help as a las, resort, but
| you do not expect IT, Perhaps ! can
illustrate the thought ! am trying TO
enforce a few years ago, in a New
England district, the drouth was so
great that all the churches agreed that
on a given Sabbath there should be
united prayer 10 God for rain. AS the
| people from one country home were
starting TO their place OF worship,
little girl said, Wait for me a moment,
! have forgotten s-nething,' and ran
TO the house and brought out an UNI
brella; whereupon her mother her
! pious mother, her God-iearing but not
God-trusting mother, said: Why,
child, what on earth do you want with
an umbrella todayl The prospect OF
rain was never so distant" The little
girl with the conhding and abiding
trust OF child, replied, 81 thought you
were going TO pray to God for rain"
| The fact IS my friends, our respect
i've concepts OF God are wide apart.
Christian Scientists do not believe that
Infinite Goodness filed the world with
rcprobates and sinners simply to give
himself occupation IN pardoning their
sins to the praise OF His glorious
grace or in tor,uring them with sick.
ness, anguish and flame TO the praise
! OF His glorious justice but they do
believe, and act upon the belief. that
God Is Infinite Love, the bountiiul