The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-12-02

bv tha older churches against their
own concept OF Christian science e
chat ii I'd sheer impiety for any man
or woman to assert that he or she
is clothed with the power Of God to
heal the sick. The striking weak
ness of this objection is that Chris
tian Scientists do not profess In any
degree any such power. Christian
Scientists simply assert, as 1t was
declared in the time Of Jesus, that
the power that heals the sick is the
power of God. Now II it is true that
the health-giving power is of God,
and it is also true that God's power
and love are as great now as they
were In the morning Of the Christian
era, then tell me is there anything
strange In the fact that the lame do
walk and the blind doisee, today, ss
they did walk and see nineteen hum
dred years ago? On the contrary
would it not strike your human
sense of Justice as passing strange,
with Gods power and love unchang-
ed. that He should not manifest that
power and love to His children as
He did in the time of Jesus? But
really about the only difference be-
tween our thought respecting the
power and Willingness of God to
heal the sick, SO far as can discern
it is about this: You say you be-
lie ge it, and we believe it; you say
you believe it and do not trust in 1t,
we believe it and do trust it; you say
you believe with Paul that in God you
live and move and have your being
and go to q doctor or the drug
store for your life and health; we
believe with Paul that in God we
have life, health and Immortality
and 60 to God, and God only, fol-
life and health.
assert that there is not a Chris
tian religious organization in the
world today, and never has been
one, whether Protestant, Catholic
or Jewish, that does not hold and
teach the doctrine of Gods power
and willingness to heal the sick
You must believe, as q mere matter
of might, that God has the power tC
heal the sick: for you say that BY
the word of his power He created al
the worlds and all that is in them
you say that He fashioned the eyt
and the ear, and If this is true ther
you must believe that God can re
moYe a little film from the ey,
He created, that the power tina
fashioned the ear can remove a little
thickness from its drum. 1t is yer,
apparent that you believe that Goo
has Ithe physical and mental wei
fare of His children in His keeping
and is willing to make them vel
because every Sabbath in you
churches, you openly, and some
times elaborately, pray to God. $50
the sick and the afflicted" 18th,
poor and distressed" "the widow
and the orphan ;"and you would no
I am sure, 20 to God with a petition
for relief where you doubted eithe
His power or willingness t,
grant your petition. Really do yol
not think that your professed belle
and your practice should keep com
pany with each other? And ma.
you not wisely learn tonight, If yol
have never realized 1t before, that
declared moral belief that is no
supplemented by what you do, /
simply an assault upon your intellec
tual integrity? I submit to you thi
simple propositions: If you reall.
believe that you live and move il
God, then should you not, as a mer
act of keeping faith with yourselves
trust your life and your health t
their Infinite keeper?
| ANCESTRAL OPINION.
To my mind your lack of trust Il
Gods healing power and love is no
very strange. 1t is the natural re
suit of ancestral opinion. You
fathers believed and therefore taugh
you to believe, that God makes yoI
sick; that God makes you blind, an,
deaf ana lame; and so it is not har,
to understand that one who so re
CARDS God as a fruitful source O
every sorrow, heart-acbe and heart
break, would reluctantly go to Hir
with petition for relief from tn
very woes His own hand had wrough
And right here is the marke
distinction between the CID churches
thought of God, and our thought @