Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01

this language no warrant for any at
tempt to separate the commandment
by declaring that the part relating To
preaching was to be perpetuated, but
the part relating to healing the sick was
to be put aside, as having reference
only to the time in which, and those to
whom it was given. After his resurrec-
ton and just before his ascension Jesus
gave TO the same disciples to whom he
gave his first great commandment Tex
cepting Judas IscarioI who had betrayed
him. final commandment. This con-
Stltutes the two last verses of the Book
OF Matthew
Go We therefore, and teach all ma
tiOns, bartiZing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost.
Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever | have commanded you:
and, 10, | am with you always, even un-
TO the end of the world"
This language is broad and unquali-
fled. 1t cOmprehends all the command
ments previously given to his disciples,
and this, of course, includes his first
great commandment. According To
Marks gospel he commands his discip-
les TO preach this gospel 10 every Great
ure." This is plain and unmistakable
direction or instruction. Let me plain
ly ask: When was it ever repealed,
countermanded, qualified, or changed
in any manner, by Jesus or any one
else of those having biblical authority to
teach or preachg Where is the record
thereof? We declare, therefore, on the
most explicit biblical authority, thatthe
part of the great commandment relat-
ing to healing the sick was as impera.
tive as that pertaining to preaching.
Healing sickness is, then. an essential
and Indispensable part of Christ's gos-
pei. No right exists 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 Ji-
vine power that healed in Jesus time
heals today, so far as it is understood
and practiced. There is but one Truth,
and that Truth is eternal, unchangable
The healing Christ never Withdrew
himself from the world. Jesus de-
clared as the solemn and awful conclu-
sion of MS final commandment: And,
10, | am with you alway, even unto the
end of the world
May | not then appeal to all good
people, of every belief or sect, to and us
In spreading this healing and saving
Gospel? May | not deeply, earnestly,
and in the most fraternal spirit, ask you
to rejoice with us that God in these lat
ter days, is sending around the world
mighty current OF healing truth, AID
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
a ha acalQCc and iDonntnOf bafOrn HiS oil
mightiness
May | ask if the day has gone by
when God should cease to be almighty? |
when human error-sin-shouid no
longer be overcome and destroyed? ? |
when sickness, sorrow, misery, and dis |
tress, should no longer be striven |
against until they are annihilatedg
ask, in all sincerity and candor, has the |
healing and saving Christ been with |
drawn from human reach because there |
is no longer need of such Christ? |
And, in this sense, has the day of heal
ing miracles passed because there is |
now no necessity for them? AS Christ |
ian Scientists we maintain, however, |
that divine healing is miraculous only |
as it is not understood. All true heal |
ing is done through the understanding |
of ever-operative law.
1 Will close by asking your attention |
while'I read a brief extract from the |
preface 10 our text book as it so aptly |
epitomizes what | have endeavored TO |
say
''The physical healing of Christian
Science results now, as in Jesus time,
from the operation of divine Principle,
before which sin and disease lose their
reality in human consciousness, and so
disappear as naturally and necessarily |
as darkness give place to light, and sin
to reformation Now, as then, his
mighty works are not supernatural,
but supremely natural. They are the
signs of Emmanuel, or "God with us"
Ia divine influence ever present in hui
man consciousness, and repeating itself,
coming now again, as was promised
TO preach deliverence to the cap
tives (of sensel
Aud recovery of sight to blind,
TO set at liberty them that are /
bruised Page XI.
read also the closing paragraph of
this preface as showing the Christly |
spirit in which this book was given to
the world
''In the spirit of Christ's charity, ,-aS
one who, hopeth all things, endureth
all things, and is joyful to bear conso-
lation to the sorrowing. and healing to
the sick-she commits these pages to
honest seekers for Truth"