Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-28
FAILURE IN HEALING.

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A press dispatch from Kansas City,
Mo. gives some particulars OF an at
tempt by a new leader among the Dow
ieltes to supplant and dethrone Noliva
who Is now at the head Of the Chicago
zion. We are not concerned about
the conditions among the Dowieites, nor
whether Vollva or the new asprant
Parham, shall have control Of affairs
in their city We make reference to
this subject simply because Of a SEM
,se-ee In the dispatch to which we have
referred, that conveys a very common
error and 1t has gone forth through
the press to the people Of this country.
il is as follows:
"Parham also claimed the power TO
heal by prayer, but while he was ~
Kansas CITY. Mrs. Porter Huntington,
of Rome, n. Y, died while on her way
to this city m spite Of the prayers Of
fered here and by her daughter while
on the train
Healing by prayer, which Implies
faith is part Of the Christian religion
that Is TO say, the religion taught by
Jesus Christ and his Apostles. It has
been cast out Of the creeds Of tho mod
ern sects IN Christendom, but is plainly
inculcated in the New Testament
when Jesus Of Nazareth called the
Twelve disciples to be His Apostles and
sent them out "as sheep among wolves
10 preach His word without money
and without price, one Of the duties lie
imposed upon them was TO heal "all
manner Of slcknesses and all manner
OF disease" Matt. r. - After His
resurrection ne gave them commission
10 go into all the world and preach
the Gospel 10 every creature and
among the signs which lie said would
follow them that believe was, They
shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover" (Mark xvi; 49,.
The history Of the acts Of the Apos-
Ties shows that the healing Of the sick
by faith and prayer was part u the
doctrine Of the Church, as much 50 as
that Of baptism. or the sacrament Of
the Lords supper The gift Of healing
was enumerated by the Apostle Paul
among "the gifts Of the Spirit Il Cor.
Sil) and James gave specific tnstruc-
lions that n any were sick among the
Saints they should call for the Elders
OF the Church, who should anoint them
18th oil and pray over them. The
promise was that "the prayer OF faith
shall save the sick, and the Lord shall
raise him mp, DANES V, 49,. We
need not partlcularize further on this
point.
The motive power M this treatment Of
the sick was faith II It was so In for
rner times AZ related IN the epistle 10
the Hebrews CHAP. XII q should be so
now. for "the same cause VIII produce
the same Effects There are number
less witnesses TO the truth Of this state
meni ana the cogency 81 the argument
These are not altogether confined Ia
the experiences Of the Laiter--da,
Saints. There are others who have
learned for a certainty that the sich
may be healed by faith. But this does
not prove that the sick in every ip.
stance can be healed by prayer snd The
laying on Of hands. or that the power Of
death Is 10 be overcome IA that way
II 20. the early Christians and ih'
Apostles who administered 20 then
need not have suffered long from pair
or disease, or come under the dominion
Of that law which declares thaL -, =
sppoii,re1 unto man once 20 die
suppose u is true that the lady mcn'
Toned IN the dispatch died in kansa'
city in spite Of the prayers Offered
there" Does that a0ori ans evidence
90 prove that no other persons hav'
been healed through prayer and faith
we hear Of individuals 90 different
ages suocumb.ng 90 disease. notWlth
standing the care of the best physicians
and the administrator ~ The most 20
tent remedies Does mat go 90 Prov
that persons afflicted iu o. similar wa
who have survived have not beei
healed by the means aud services Nhicl
failed IN the other cases? The MOTTO.
conveyed IN that which We have quote
from the Kansas city dispatch is ofleI
expressed IN this connection. By peoph
who might be supposed 10 have bette
sense and proiounder Judgment
II viii not be denied by believers b
the Bible that the sick were healed d
numerous instances by the adminlstra
lions Of the Hebrew prophets and %
Christs apostles Yet we find Pau
writing to Timothy advising him VIVA
20 use for his stomachs sake and hi
often inhrmitos," and stating tha
-'Trophlnus have left a, Milctu-
sick" We might refer to many iu
stances in which the hoiiest II men an
women suffered pain and finally deatt
notwithstanding the efficacy Of fait
and prayer In other cases.
In tho establishment OF ihs Church O
Christ in the latter days The doctrine O
k.allne hx faith Is is.adr a nart Of II