Milford chronicle., 1904-04-15

| ( look TO God alone; but until that poi
Is reached we must both work an
pray; work ceaselessly. and bravel,
and hopefully. and invoke the divin
blessing on our labors.
Works and Faith.
But, though the whole trend Of th
Bible teaches that works and faith q
; twin sisters. should 90 hand in han,
IN search of the waters of physica
health, yet faith curists blind theil
eyes and stop their ears to these BIB
iical teachings They get n hold or
one little passage Of Scripture and
separate it from all its surrounding
connections. As a sweet morsel thev
turn 1t over and over and over again.
Ihey magnify it. They distort it, and
then they rest their entire belief upon
It. Ihese people may be good at heart,
Out they treat Scripture somewhat as
I famous refOrmer did in the noted
! meeting he had with John Calvin in
Munich, l believe, in about the year
loIO. After he had valiantly helped
to fight the battle Of the reformation
TO a glorious and a successful issue
lie still clung tenaciously TO the doc
trlne OF transubStantiation That doc
trlne' in plain language, means that
WIeh we drink of the communion wine
and eat of the communion bread we
literally are drinking Of Christs blood
ana eating of Christs body. The other
school of theological thought held that /
when we assemble at the communion I
table we only eat of Christ's body and
drink of Christ's blood in symbol. We
eat and drink in symbol. as the lambs
Dlood shed upon the Jewish altar was
the symbol Of Christ's blood about TO
be shed for us. This battle over tran
substantiation ragged bitterly for years
between the two schools of RELIGIONS
thought
In order to bring this theological CON
iict to a close the two schools per
'uaded the two leaders, John Calvin
ma this mighty man. to meet and dis |
'uss the theological questions at issue.
Nhat did this famous reformer do at /
nat conference? History tells us that q
e brought along a tablecloth. upon a
which were embroidered these six n
lords, taken from the twenty-sixth S
lnpter of Matthew: Take. eat; this v
my body" Then he placed that 4
oth over table and simply rested C
Is hand upon it and said nothing. a
o matter what arguments were d
ought forward he answered Moth pI
3. All that he dill was to point TO Il
e one sentence written upon the Ia le
e. Take. eat; this is nly body" W
'ut' said John Calvin. Christ also W
ld, 1 am the vine. ye are the N
anches.' Are you going to take that III
ntence literally? Does that sentence OF
ply that Jesus is stick?" But the co
former would answer nothing. All me
nc he did was TO point to the one tlo
ltence upon the table, which read. DR.
axe, eat; this is my body So in wa
same way the faith curists pure as
! simple will not accept the trend ISIS
the Bibles teachings. They will not On
hpare passage with passage They wa
/ not see that every leaf of every Wo
lpter of every book of the Bible sht
ches that faith must go hand in VIC
Id with works They will not see IN
1t is almost impossible to find an
dent where Christ healed the sick A
ess at the same time he compelled il
on upon the part of those whom wol
would physically help. vest
The Divine Physician. disc
i'd not Christ compel action upon of Il
part Of him that was blind? After 1t W
lad anointed the blind eyes with a disc
st clay did he not say unto the Disc
IS man, Go wash in the pool of Of t
mp He went his way. therefore start
washed and came seeing. Did not ed Il
st compel action upon the part Of liam
ten lepers? Go show yourselves your
the priests. And it came to pass for J
ey went they were cleansed." Did man
sod compel the leper Naaman TO wOul
the farOf Damascus and dip sew inOcu
mes in the Jordan before his flesh speci
ne like unto that of a little child? wOuli
not here advocating any hereticaI the b
that Christ cannot and will not wOIlC
any cases heal our physical dis wOulC
but l assert that as u people we sen {
no more right TO expect the Di- hunt
- 'A~ANAA ~ answer our prayers NHuNNl
alth without any cooperative ef- micro
II our part than we have a right diseas
Dect our Divine Commissary to pray I
IS our daily bread without our gasp 1
1g for it. We have just as much prever
10 kneel down at night and say work {
'rd's Prayer, ''Give us this day scienti
lily bread" and then in our ca as tina
to expect next morning a vi the lay
breakfast to jump out Of a vi Are
fire and sizzle upon a vision iHvesti
oiler and the water faucet to fill 1892 Il
t with visionary coffee or the in 1891
o tumble the empty bread tray army.
he dummy filed with visionary time or
st as we have to expect the sick sent by
made well without our own eff the Me
ION which divine blessing has yer. D
INVOKED - faith to react upon tigatior
works always in the invalid's quinine
go hand in hand with faith! death r
Jobs COmfOrters. Geria "
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