Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-04-14

turn IL over ana over ana over again,
They magnify it. They distort 1t, and
then they rest their entire belief upon
it. These people may be good at heart.
but they treat Scripture somewhat as
famous reformer did in the noted
meeting he had with John Calvin in
Munich. believe, in about the year
1910. After he had valiantly helped
to fight the battle Of the reformation
to glorious and successful issue
he still chung tenaciously to the doc
trine of ransubstantiation. That doc
trinc. 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 Christs body. The other
school Of theological thought held that
when We assemble at the communion
table we only eat OF Christs body and
drink Of Christs blood in symbol. We
eat and drink in symbol. MS the lambs
blood shed upon the Jewish altar was
the symbol of Christ's blood about TO
he shed for us. This battle over tran.
substantiatlon ragged bitterly for years
between the two schools OF religious
thought.
In order TO bring this theological con-
fct To close the two schools per
auadcd the two leaders. John Calvin
and this mighty man, to meet and dis
cuss the theological questions Mt issue.
What did this famous rcformer do Mt
that conference? History tells us that
he brought along tobleclOth, upon
which were embroidered these six
words. taken from the twcnty-sixth
chapter of Matthew: Take. eat; this
is my body" Then he placed that
cloth over . table and simply rested
his hand upon 1t and said nothing.
No matter what arguments were
brought forward, he answered moth
ing. All that he did was to point t.
the one sentence written upon the Ia
bic Take. eat: this Is my body"
But" said John Calvin. "Christ also
said. i am the vine, yc are the
branches Are you going TO take thai
sentence literally: Does that sentence
imply that Jesus is stick:' But tie
reformer would answer nothing. All
that he did was to point to the one
sentence upon the table which resd.
Take. eat; this is m, BODY So In
the same way the faith c,Irists pure
and simple will not accept the trend
OF the Bibles teaching 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 mus: go hand in
hand with works They will not see
that ii il almost impossible" to find an
incidcnT Whc;n Christ healed the sick
unless at the sam. time he compelled
action upcr the part OF those whom
he would PHYSICAL. heir.
The Divine Physicinn.
DID not Chris; compel action upon
the part Of him that was blind? After
he had anontcl the blind eyes with a
moist clay did he not say unto tue
young man, GO wash in the pool g"
Siloam?" He went his way. therefore,
and washed and came seeing. Did not
Christ compel action upon the part c.
the ton leperS: GO show yourselves,
unto the priests And it came to pass
as they Wen: they were cleonsed." Did
not God compel the lcpcr Naaman to
leave the faroff Damascus and dip Sc. =
on times in the .Iordal before his fest
became like unto that of little child !
am not here advocating any hereticai
idea thar Christ cannot and will nc
in many cases heal our physical dis
eases, hut assert that as a people we
have no more right 10 expect the hi
/ vine Physician 10 answer our praye:a
for health without any cooperative eff
fort. OF our part than we have right
to expect our Divine COmmiSsary to
give us our daily bread without our
working for it. We have just as much
right to kneol down at night and say
, the Lords Prayer, Give US this day
our daily bread" and then in our ca
cerness to expect next morning vi
sionary breakfas, to jump out Of VI
sionary fire and slZzla upon vision
airy hroiler and the water faucet to NJ
the pot with visionary coffee or the
yeast 10 tumble the empty bread tray
down the dummy filled with visionary
hot toast rs we have to expect the sick
to lie made well without our own eff
fort upon which divine blessing has
, been invoked --- faith to reac. upon
works. works always in the invalid
room: to Sc hanI in hand with faith.
jobs COmforver,.
FAT, cure teachings purN and sim
pie. are rot only contrar: to Scripture
common sense bit ais, antagOnist,c
TO the Communications with which the
Bible again and again honors human
/ mcdicament ana the physicians pre-
scriptions, The onlv passage in the
! Bible which in any way might be con
strued by the casual reader ns slur
/ upon doctors and drugs is that one so
often quoted by faith curists from the
words found in the book OF Job: "Ye
are forgers of lies. Ye are all physi-
clans OF no value" But Job Is not
here abiding TO true physicians at all
This sentence is q figure Of speech.
Job had lost patience with his three
friends, Eliphaz, Zophar and Bildad.
These three friends, instead OF com
forting him in his time OF trouble
came around with enough groans and
wines 10 make q vel! man sick or n
sick man still sicRer. They asserted
! that Jobs boils were the results of his
sins, and Job in disgust. plainly told
Them il they could bring no better
comfort than that they had all better