The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-01-27

he went farther and added these weighty
and startling words: 'And greater
works." Now, my friends, let me ask
you a plain and simple question; Have
greater works in healing sickness and
DESTROYING sin ever been accomplished
than Jesus did? If not, one of two
things must be true: Either Jesus was
false prophet, not knowing whereof
he prophesied. or those works which he
did, and greater, remain yet to be done.
No one believing in the Bible and Chris
tianity. will allow the former; and
hence the latter must be true. And if
these great works, and even greater, are
not to be done by the Christian world.
by whom are they to be done! In view
of all that the Bible teaches, and of all
that Jesus said and did. does it not de-
volve on Christian people to strive and
pray and to continue striving and pray
ing. for an understanding of the divine
law by virtue of which these works may
be accomplished, and thus be enabled to
fully obey the instructions and COM
mandments left by Jesus to his follow
ers? Christian Science teaches that such
an obligation does solemnly rest upon
the Christian world. and its sublime
the understanding of that divine law.
Surely for this they should not be con-
demned by any good people, much less
by those claiming the Christian religion
as theirs. One can understand how those
who dispute the verify of the Bible and
of the Christian religion might consist
emily, from their point of view, oppose
our doctrine. but it is difficult to compre-
bend how the believer in the Bible and
in Jesus life and teaching should do so.
1t looks much like decrying the very
system to which they adhere.
My friends, the Bible makes it plain
that Jesus came to destroy sin, sick
ness, and death. 1t makes it plain that
he did destroy them in numerous in
stances. | ask: If sin, sickness, and
death, We're and are part of Gods law,
or if they were created or authorized by
Him, why did Jesus come to destroy
them or either of them? 1t is not ra-
tional to suppose that God sent his only
begotten son to undo that which He
had DONE 1t is not rational TO contend
that God made laws, at one time, which
must afterwards be annulled. This is
contrary to Gods character as a change
less and immutable Being such as the
Scriptures declare Him to be.
And / say in conclusion, my friends,
this is your Physician. as well as mine.
We can go to him daily, hourly, NOM
entarily, in sweet and silent prayer, and
if we pray Alright, He will heal us of
our diseases and remove from us our in
firmities. We can know, in the very
depths of our being, that He is our Ply
stefan, our Comforter, our Life, our
Health, our All-in-all, and in the fullest
and most absolute sense. n very present
help in trouble, and that in Him we live
and move. and have our physical and our
spiritual being.
May l ask if the day is gone by when
God should cease TO be almighty? When
human error-sin-should no longer be
overcome and destroyed? When sick
ness, sorrow, misery, and distress. should
no longer be striven against until they
are annihilated? / ask, in all SINGER
ity and candor, has the healing and saw
ing Christ been withdrawn from human
reach because there is on longer need of
such Christ? And, in this sense, has
the day of healing miracles passed be-
cause there is now no necessity for