CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-09-20

lief in the first chapter of Genesis,
which is the record of the true, spirit
ual creation, puts upon us the neces-
sity of recognizing God as the only
creator of man, and man as the image
and likeness of his creator forever and
forever
THE Old Testament teachings fur
nish an abundant foundation for the
New Testament doctrine of healing
through the divine law, and especially
the teaching and works of Jesus.
might quote extensively from the New
Testament did time permit, but shall
confine the quotations to the sayings
and precepts of the founder of the
Christian religion. This should be suf-
ficient authority for every protesting
Christian.
Jesus sent forth his twelve disciples
to preach and to heal the sick He
gave them a commandment, called by
some Bible commentators his great
commission. In Matthew Tenth, this
commandment is thus recorded:
:" Go not into the way of the Gentiles
and into any city of the Samaritans
enter We not; but go rather to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel.
And as We go preach, saying, Thy
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
raise the dead, cast out the devils !;
freely ye have received. freely give.
Provide neither gold nor silver,
nor brass in your purses.
Nor yet scrip for your journey.
neither two coats. neither shoes. nor
yet slaves; for the workman is worthy
of his meat
This commandment is unit 1t is
not two commandments. There is in
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 refer
ence only to the time in which. and
those 10 WnOIn, IL was given.
God is your physician. as well as
mine. We can go to him daily, hourly,
momentarily, in sweet and silent pray
er, and If we pray Alright. He will heal
us of our diseases and remove from
us our infirmities We can know. in
the very depths OF our being, that He
is our physician. our comforter, our
life. our health. our all-in-all, and in
the fullest and most absolute sense.
very present help in trouble: and
that In Him indeed we live and move
and have our being"
Judge Hanna, who is now a member
of the board Of lectureship OF the
First Church OF Christ. Scientist, of
Boston, Is a native of Pennsylvania,
but in early life moved to the West,
and during President Arthur's admin
istration was registrar of the United
States land Office at Leadville. 1t was
there he became interested in Chris
tian Science. through the healing Of
his wife, himself and some OF their
devote his entire time to the promo
ton OF the cause Going East. he
aided in establishing the present First
Church OF Christ, Scientist, at Scran-
ton. Pa, and in 1892 he was called to
Boston as editor in chief Of the Chris
tian Science periodicals.
Judge Hanna is clear, cogent and
entertaining speaker. and we regret
that we are unable to publish his en-
tire address instead of the preceding
excerpts. which, however. we hope
will give our readers some idea of
his lecture and OF the scriptural basis
for the tenets and beliefs of Christian
Science, which were originated, ac-
cording to Judge Hanna. to restore
the lost element OF physical healing.