The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-20
A CLEAR EXPOSITION
OF the Tencts of Christian Science
and the Work It's Adherents
Desire to DO.
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cult to account for the skepticism of
those philosophers, who still rejected
and derided the doctrine of the re-
s%urrection. 81 81 IL From the
first of the fathers to the last of the
popes, a succession of bishops, of
saints, and martyrs, and of miracles,
is continued without interruption.
" Every age bears testi-
mony to the wonderful events by
which it was distinguished, and its
testimony appears no less weighty
and respectable than that OF the pre-
ceding generation, until we are in
sensibly led on to accuse Il own
inconsistency, if in the eighth or the
twelfth century we deny to the ven
cradle Bede or to the holy Bernard,
the same degree of confidence which,
in the second century, we had so lib
orally granted to Justin or to r.
enaeus. If the truth of any Of those
miracles is appreciated by their ap-
parent use and propriety every age
had %unbelievers to convince, here
tics to confute, and idolatrous ma
lions to convert; and sufficient mo-
tives might always be produced to
Justify the interposition of heaven"
/ am the possessor of a set of
the writings Of the Ancient Apollo
gists referred to by Gibbon. They
constitute a library of eight volumes.
| have road them with much inter
est and profit, and, as Gibbon says,
they go infinitely into the history of
healing sickness and raising the dead
by the early Christians through the
efficacy Of prayer and fasting. We
understand that fasting, as used by
the ancient Christians, meant simply
right or righteous living. That man
ner of living which brings men into
their true relationship to God and to
His law.
In direct line with the above
quote from an able article by Prof.
j. R. Mosley, published in the Chris
tian Science Sentinel of November
7th, 1908. Prof. Mosley says:
"As the church pecame worldly
and political and departed from the
pure and simple faith of the print.
tive Christian Fathers, these special
manifestations of Gods healing and
resurrection power became less pro.
nounced and less frequent; but heal.
ing through direct spiritual means
has been believed in, and to a certain
extent practiced, in every age of the
Christian Church. The healing will
of God has been re-emphasized and
re-demonstrated in every spiritual
movement and religious reform thai
sought to bring man into closer un
ity with the Mind and nature .o1
Christ. In their days of greatest
spirituality and conservation, specia,
signs Of healing followed the work Of
the Waldenses, the Moravians, the
Huguenots, the Covenanters, the
Friends, the Baptists and the Method.
lists. Some healing followed the
works of Luther, and John Wesley
was a firm believer in the power and
willingness of God to heal the sick
His journal contains many reports
Of healing through direct spiritual
means. He even prayed for his horse,
and claimed remarkable answers tc
prayer over the elemnts."
1t Is interesting here to quote a
few words from southeyy's Life OF
Wesley. Says southey: HE related
cures wrought by his faith and his
prayers, which he.considered and re-
presented as positively miraculous,
By thinking strongly on a text OF
Scripture, which promised that these
signs should follow those that be-
lieved. and by calling on Christ to
increase his faith and confirm the
word of his grace, he shook of In
simultaneously, he says, a fever which
had hung upon him for some days,
and was in a moment freed from all
pain, and restored TO his former
strength"
Wesley had evidently read with re.
greet the seeming dereliction Of the