The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-05

any one else of those having biblical authority to teach or preaeh7 Where is the record thereof? We declare. therefore, on the most explicit biblical Y authority, that the part of the great commandment relating to healing the sick was as imperative as that pertain ing to preaching. Healing sickness is, then, an essential and indispensable part of Christ's gospel. No right ex- ists for the effort to put aside Jesus commandment to heal the sick and to heal according to His teachings and His methods of healing, without drugs, surgery or any material remedies or appliances. The same divine power that healed in Jesus time heals to-day, so far as it is understood and practiced. There is but one truth. and that truth is eternal, unchangeable. The healing Christ never withdrew Himself from the world. Jesus declared as the sol- emn and awful conclusion of His final commandment: And, 10, am with you alway, even unto the end of the world" ..-
 May I not, then, appeal to all good people, of every belief or sect, to aid us in spreading this healing and saving gospel? May I not deeply. earnestly, and in the most fraternal spirit, ask you to rejoice with us that God in these latter days, Is sending around the world a mighty current of healing truth, and may not ask you to unite your voice with ours in pleading for higher and more general recognition of God as all- power, and of all that is opposed to Him as baseless and impotent before His almightiness?
 May I ask if the day has gone by when God should cease to be almighty, when human error-sin-should no longer be overcome and destroyed? when sickness, sorrow, misery and dis tress should no longer be striven against until they are aunihilated? I ask, in all sincerity and candor, has the healing and saving Christ been j withdrawn from human reach because there is no longer need of such a Christ? And, in this sense, has the day of healing miracles passed because there is now no necessity for them As Christian Scientists we maintain, I however, that divine healing is mirac- ulous only as it is not understood. All true healing is done through the under standing of ever-operative law. will close by asking your attention while I read a brief extract from the preface to our textbook as 1t aptly ep- itomizes what l have endeavored to 1 say:
 s'The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus time, l from the operation of divine principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness, and so l disappear as naturally and necessarily as darkness gives place to light, and sin to reformation. Now, as then, His I mighty works are not supernatural but supremely natural They are the sign of Immanuel, or God with us, "a di- vine influence. ever present in human consciousness, and repeating itself, coming now again, as was promised aforetime,
 \ To preach deliverance to the captives
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 And recovery of sight to the blind. ITO set at liberty them that are
 bruised. ."-Page xxi.
 read also the closing paragraph of this preface as showing the Christly \ spirit in which this book was given to l the world:
 Tn the spirit of Christ's charity, as one who 'hopeth all things, endureth l.all things. and is joyful to bear consoi i lation to the sorrowillg, and healing to 3I the sick, she commits these pages to 4 honest seekers for truth"