The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-20

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cause for that reason it would best
serve His purpose in what He was
about to show them. Let me ask
yen iestion? Did the blind man
Sc M..un the clay was on his eyes?
Did the clay restore his sight? No.
Not until he had gone and washed it
off did the man see. In this manner
Jesus left us a sign that, as we cast
aside all material remedies, NJ mat
ter how simple, and go in the way
He has sent us, blindly it may be at
first, our obedience shall open the
eyes that see not and we shall be-
hold the glory OF God, and His Son,
the living Christ.
When it to the parting o.
the Ways between spirit and matter,
the statement God is nc ~respecter
of persons must be either accepted
or rejected liter"i:y.
II you accept it you must adm.
the only true and acceptable things
of the Lord are those which mani
fest Life, Truth and Love to all.
Ii you reject it il spite of the fact
that it teaches what is one mans
food is another mans poison, accept
Materia Medica as Gods institution
for healing sickness, you admit HIS
failure to uphold the law Of Eternal
Life when even drugs fail to cure,
and mankind dies, and utterly shatter
any possible reliance on Paul's state
ment lin Christ shall all be made
alive"
The Christian Scientists are neither
illogical nor ill-advised in their In
sistance that this is the accepted
time wherein we should seek the I'M
divided garment Of Christ, give child
like obedience to all His commands,
and put on the whole armor of God"
The Christian Scientists are not
antagonistic to physicians. Neither do
We object to a physician being calle>-
to .ake charge of a case when a pa
t!ent requests it. We have demon
Strated to our entire satisfaction that
We have found the Way" wherein
suffering is not merely alleviated.
but destroyed. We have, however,
neither right o desire to condemn
those who adhere to any other way
than ours SO long as it seems best to
them. Our religion teaches do un-
to others as We would that others
should do unto YOU"
We know hat we are not our
brothers keeper, except in 80 far as
we shall seek u own in another's
good" and are able lovingly to wish
all God speed in their every e%ndeavor
to find Truth, no matter whether the
~endeavor seems to correspond with
ours or not. We know that what
is of God shall stand, and what is of
man shall fall" and that in due
time "all shall know me tGod) from
the least to the greatest"
The contrasting results of the
material and the spiritual, method
for the treatment of disease are Wv
idly portrayed in the Bible, as the
following quotations will prove. For
the material method we have the fol-
lowing from Chronicles: "And Asa
was diseased in his feet e y, yet
in his disease he sought not to the
Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa
slept with his fathers and died"
Fol the spiritual method we have
the following, collated from the New
Testament and Psalms: ''In the be-
ginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was
God He sent His Word and
healed them, and delivered them
from their distinctions" "!And the
Word was made flesh, and dwelt
amongsts us, full Of grace and truth"
And a woman having an issue Of
blood twelve years, which had spent
all her living upon physicians, neither
could be healed of any, came behind
him, and touched the border of his
garment, and Immediately her issue
or blood s~taunched." Jesus said nm
to him, I am the way, the truth and
the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me- Think not that
| am come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I an come not to destroy
but to fulfill. For verify | say unto
you, till heaven and earth pass, one
jot or n little sha.; n no wise pass
from the law, till all be fulfilled" ~
am the light of the world: he that
followeth me shall not walk in dark
ness, but shall have the light Of life"
There is no m%istaking the WAY"
The time has come for us to stop fol-
lowing Asa's example, and in sweet
submission to the Masters will, turn
TO God for our health, realizing that
the Word is as mighty to heal to-
day, " thousand years after Jesus
demonstrated it's eternal efficacy, as
1t was when He was on earth.
Drugs Of themselves have no mower
ana only seem to have by reason of
our belief in their potency and the
confidence n has in the physician
administering them.
! know Of an instance lemon
strating the truth of this statement.
A lady, taken very i'll while the fam
NY physician was out Of town, sent
Tor n close at hand, who was also
a noted man in his profession. He
called and prescribed for her. She
grew rapidly worse. until great alarm
was felt as to the ultimate resu1t
of her illness.
Just at this time her old physician
returned, and was Immediately sent
LOT. When he called he ordered the
medicine the other physician left