Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-02

gulue anu SHc uOcS not announce any
principle, doctrine or practice of
Christian Science that she did not
find in the bible. Wherefore Chris
tian Science offers to the world no
new bible or mythical construction of
the old one. II cnthrones no new di.
vinity, but reenthrones and declares
unto you the only living and true
God SO long worshpped.
"The older Christian churches urge
as an objection against what they con
ceive Christian Science to be that 1t
is sheer implety for any person to ms.
sert that he is clothed with the pow.
er of God to heal the sick. The
striking weakness of this objection is
that Christian Scientists do not pro.
fess any such thing. AS it was in the
time of Jesus, so now the power that
heals the sick is the power of God.
christian Scientists assert that the
beneficent God of 1900 years ago, who
so loved the world that he gave his
Son to suffer TO reconcile man to God,
to enable man to know God, is our
God today, with all the power, all the
tenderness, all the love-. all the sym.
pathy for man that lie manifested
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else of that same power aud love that
makes the lame to walk aud the blind
to see
THE only argument that Jesus ever
used to establish his divinity was the
one he sent to the questioning John;
Go tell John the blind receive their
sight aud the lame walk aud that is
the argument we use today to cstab-
lish The divine origin OF Christian
Science; this makes 1t n science. The
lame do walk and the blind do see anu
all the logic in the world cannot lessen
the force of this fact.
"Howevcr, the old churches may
not deny either the power or willing
ness of God to heal the sick. They
have believed or thought they bclicv.
ed, for centuries that God could ana
would heal the sick, for every Sab,
bath from every Christian pulpit in
the whole land prayers are publicly
offered for the sick and afflicted, the
widow and the orphan, the heavy Ia
den and the broken-hearted and Ger.
lainly You would not petition God for
relief that you either questioned his
power or his willingness to bcstow
And / am sure that can say of each
one of you that when serious illness
comes to one OF your loved ones al
your family altars every morning and
night you ask God to restore the loved
one to health and give him back to
your arms and home again.
you believe with Christian Scien-
lists In divine healing, yet do you act
upon 1t as they do? Perhaps 1t is on
ly after the doctors and patcut nos
trums have left you helpless that you
so to God with your sick loved ones,
and then not quite assured that he
will give you relief, for do you not
pray with medicine in your pocket
and consulting physicians in the adj
joining room? You may believe that
in God you live, move and have your
being, yet do you trust your life and
health entirely in Gods keeping?
"Really, your lack of trust In Gods
healing power is not very strange, ii
Is the natural result of ancestral opin,
ion. Our fathers believed and taught
us to believe that God makes us sick;
that God makes us blind aud deaf and
lame; and therefore we can easily un-
derstand how reluctantly and doubt.
ful one who believes that God is til,
fruitful source of ali his sorrow and
neartaches would 80 to Him with q
confdng petition for relief from the
very sorrows hc has wrought And
here is the marked distinction between
the old churches thought of God and
our thought of Him; Christian Scien
lists do not believe that God makes
YOU sick or blind or halt, but we dc
believe that God is infinite love, the
great physician who heals ali our dis
eases.
"Chrlstinn Scientists believe that
when Jesus went into the temple ant
; from the prophecy Of Esaias concern
ing himself and his mission to eartl
where it is written. 'The spirit OF th,
Lord is upon me, because He hath ann
olntcd me TO preach the gospel to thI
poor; He hath sent me to heal tn,
broken hearted, to preach delivcranc,
to the captiyes and recovery of sigh
10 the blind, TO set at liberty then
that are bruised and, closing th,
book sad to the congregation, This
day is this scripture fulflled in you
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