Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-01-24
THE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE LAST EVENING
Judge SepmU Hanna Of Boston, Addresses an AppeCaye
Audience Last Night at the Opera H0useAn ELOQUENT Ad
dress By an Able SpeakerThe Audience Well Pleased

ali the preceding jenafs. The solemn
sdmoIitiOu 10 strive aud pray for Il G
MIND Ct ChIIst Is "a call 30 live the high
es' possible Christian life. Ee j no at
taiua 10 that altitude OF hvltg wherein
ne has in him The same Mind that was
IN Christ Jesus is surely O Christian.
DE who earnestly strives and pra for
that Mind is surely, TO that extent and
IN that senae, leading a Christian life,
though he may yet have TO travel long
Wa before reaching the high goal
Step by step, he may climb the ladder
whose top marks tie full measure OF
tue sta 'ure Of manhood in Christ Jesus
This teLe5 is g resta.ement IN almost
exact words of PaQl's il june ion to the
Philippians, wherein ha commanded
them to hay g in themselves the same
Mind that was also in Christ Jesus.
Healing Taught by Jesus.
now wieh to speak of Jesus teach
ing with reference to healing sickness
He sent forth the twelve to preach and
to heal the sick. He gave them a COM
mandment, called By some Bible COM
meutators his Great Commission. 10
Matthew, K, this commandment is thus
recorded:
$50 not into the way of the G8ntIles,
and into any city of the Samarltsns en-
ter Ye no.; but go rather to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel.
'And as ye 90 preach, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
"HeaI the sick, cleanse the Iepers,
raise the dead. cast out deyiIs; freely
We have received, freely give.
"Provide neither gold, nor silver,
nor brass in your purses.
''Nor script for your journey, neither
two coats, neither shoes, nor yet slaves
for the workman is worthy of his meat -
This commandment is a unit. It is
not two cOmmRndm 9nts. There is in
this language no warrant for any at
tempt to separate the commandment
by declaring tha5 the part relating to
preaching was to be perpetuated, but
the part relating to healing the sick
wal to be put aside, as having refer
ence only to the time in which, and
those 20 whom, it was given. After
his resurrection and just before his as
cepslon Jesus gave to the same disci
pies to whom he gave his first great
commandment excepting Judas Iscar-
iot, who had betrayed him) a final COM
msndment. This constitutes the two
last verses of the Book of Matthew:
go ye therefore, aud teach ell ma
Mons, hap tlz ng them in the name of
the Father, and Of the Sor, and of the
Holy Ghost.
bleaching them to observe all things
[ have commanded you;
ard, 10, I am with you Away, even
unto The end Of the world"
Healing Sick Imperative.
THIS language is broad aud unqaali-
Il "a l. comprehends all the command
meuts previously given to his disciples,
and this, Of course, includes his first
great commandment. According to
Marks Gospel, he commands his dis
cIpIes to preach this gospel to ''every
creature This is plain and Unmis-
taxable direction or instruction. Let
me plai0ly AJAX: When was il ever re-
pealed, countermanded, qualified, OF
changed in any manner, by Jesus or
anyone else of those having biblical
authority to teach or preach? Where
Is the record thereof? We declare,
therefor, on the most explicit biblicsl
authority, that the part of the great
commandment relating to heeliCg the
sick was as imperative as that pertain
ing TO preaching. Healing sickness Is,
then, an essential and indispensable
part of Chr1st's gospel. No right ex-
lists for the effort to put aside Jesus
commandment to heal the sick and to
heal according to his teachings aud his
methods of healing. without drug,
surgery or any material remedies or
appliances. The same divine power
that healed in Jesus time heals today,
so far IS it Is understood and practiced.
There is but one Truth, and thai Truth
is eternal, Interchangeable. The healing
Christ never withdrew himself from
the world. Jesus declared as the sol
emu and awful conclusion of his final
CON N andment: "Aud, 10. [ am with
you AWAY, even unto the end of the
woIl3"
Appeal to All Good People.
May not, then, appeal to all goo d
people, Cf every belief or sect, to aid
US "a spreading this healing and saw
ing gospel? May [ not deeply, earn
estly, and IN the most ftaternal spirit,
ask you to rejoice with Us that God in
these latter days IS sending around
The world q mighty cnrrant Of FAILING