Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-04-18

UEAAs nOGh NGaC1A1NEt. 0hN
and hopefully, and invoke the divine
blessing on our labors.
Works and Faith.
But. though the whole trend or the
Bible teaches that works and faith, as
twin sisters. should go hand In mana
in search Of the waters or physlcal
health. yet faith curists bhnd their
eyes and stop their ears to these BID
lical teachings. They get a hold on
one little passage of Scripture n
separate il from all it's surrounding
connections. AS a sweet morsel they
turn it over and over and over again.
They magnify it. They distort it, and
then they rest their entire belief upon
it. These people may be good at heart,
but they treat Scripture somewhat as
n famous reformer did in the noted
meeting he a with John Calvin in
Munich, | believe, in about the year
1910. After he had valiantly helped
70 fight the battle of the reformation
TO a glorious and a successful issue
be still chung tenaciously to the doc
trine of transubstantiation. That doc
trine, in plain language, means that
when we drink of the communion wine
and eat Of the communion bread we
literally are drinking Of Christ's blood
and eating of Christ's body. The other
school of theological thought held that
when we assemble at the communion
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
blood shed upon the Jewish altar was
the symbol of Christs blood about to
be shed for US. This battle over tran
substantiation ragged bitterly for years
between the two schools Of religious
thought.
In order to bring this theological con-
fict to a close the two schools per-
suaded the two leaders, John Calvin
and this mighty man, to meet and dis
cuss the theological questions at issue.
What did this famous reforner do at
that conference? History tells us that
he brought along a tablecloth, upon
which were embroidered these six
words, taken from the twenty-siXth
chapter of Matthew: "Take, eat; this
is m body" Then he placed that
clOIu over d LdUlC anu Slh1p1J ACDICH
his hand upon it and said nothing.
No matter what arguments were
brought forward, he answered moth
inc. All that he did was to point to
the one sentence written upon the ia
BILE, Take, eat; this is my body"
But" said John Calvin, "Christ also
said, 4 am the vine, ye are the
L-o-oI0S Ana OOinp tn f4 Rn that
sentence literally? Does that sentence
imply that Jesus is a stick? But the
reformer would answer nothing. Ali
that he did was to point to the one
sentence upon the table, which read,
Take, eat; this is my body" So in
the same way the faith curists pure
and simple will not accept the trend
of the Bibles teachings. They will not
compare passage with passage. They
will not see that every leaf of every
chapter of every book Of the Bible
teaches that faith must go hand in
hand with works. They will not see
that it is almost impossible to find an
incident where Christ healed the sick
unless at the same time he compelled
action upon the part of those Whom
he would physically help.
The Divine Physician.
Did not Christ compel action upor
the part of him that was blind? Aftel
he had anointed the blind eyes with
moist clay did he not say unto thu
Young man, "Go wash in the pool OF
Siloam?" He went his way, therefore
and washed and anne seeing. Did no
Christ compel action upon the part o.
the ten lepers? 60 show yourselve:
unto the priests. And it came to pas:
as they went they were cleansed." Dix
not God compel the leper Naaman t.
leave the farOff Damascus n dip sew
:, en- times in the Jordan before his feSl
became like unto that of a little child
l am not here advocating any heretica
idea that Christ cannO and will no
in many cases heal our physical dis
: eases, but | assert that as a people W
have no more right to expect the Di
: vine Physician to answer u prayer
, for health without any cooperative Ell
fort. on our part than we have a RICH
to expect our Divine COmmissary t
. give us our daily bread without on
= working for it. We have just as niue
right to kneel down at night and sa
the Lords Prayer, Give US this da
our daily bread" and then in u ca
= .gerness to expect next morning a "
: sionary breakfast to jump out of a v
; sionary fire and sizZle upon a vision
: airy broiler and the water faucet to Fl
= the pot with visionary coffee or tn
yeast to tumble the empty bread ira
: down the dummy filed with visionar
= hot toast as we have to expect the sic
: to be made well without our own e.
: fort upon which divine blessing ha
beer invoked faith to react upo
: works: works always in the invalid
: o to go hand in hand with faith!
Jobs Comforters.
: Faith cure teachings, pure and sin
y pie. are not only contrary to Scripture
% common sense. but also antagonist
to the concentrations with which tn
pibIo o0oip opd AGAIN hODOrS huma