The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-16
Rev. Artemas J. Haynes Says it Cannot Control Func- tions of Nature
 Itself.
SECOND SCIENCE SERMON
Offers Explanation of Story in tho Bible of Raising Man from the Dead by Suppli-
 cation.

Rev Artemas J. Haynes in his sec ond sermon upon Christian Science at the United church last evening took as his subject "The Prayer of Faith in Heaing.' His text was from James 5:15: ''The prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up."
 In the sermon he further emphasized the necessity of reading the Bible from a larger viewpoint He spoke of the impossbility of prayer to overcome the powers of nature, such as shown in gravitation His sermon follows:
 I do not suppose there is more di- rect, practical, matter-o fact book in the Bible than this epistle of James. It is crowded with homely injunctions that have to do with every day life. It has a great deal to say about our work in the world and comments itself to us by always going straight to the point. There is mo spinning of fine the- ories in the book of James. This writer is concerned, not so much with the otdlS dDONt OuI ItQQS dS Mlll lIG SUI beneath our feet. "Be ye," he declares. "a doer of the word" And when he comes to define religions he does it in the most simple language, carrying the most unmistakable meaning: Pure re- ligion and undefiled is this, to visit the widows and the fatherless in their af- fiiction, and to keep himself unspotted fro, bo Thi, ,c tbe li,J pf language people can understand. Here is writer in whom we find ourselves placing implicit confidence.
 These words of the text, then, are those of a man who has accustomed himself to look at things from req sonable point of view. If he says that prayer helps man who is sick we shall not be inclined to dismiss his claim without some careful inquiry We are willing to admit, I presume, that James was not wholly infallible in this matter of prayer, for he declares in this same chapter. speaking by way or Illustration, that Elijah by his prayers was able to prevent rain lon the earth i by the space of three years and six months" No doubt James believed if, and very likely there was drouth lasting three years, but the modern mind will hardly rest in the conclusion that this drought was caused by the prayers of Elijah. This is what l mean ! by winnowing out the New Testament. Because believe that James was mis- taken in supposing that Elijah had control of the weather for three years, 1 am I to conclude that he was mistak- en in everything, and shall cast aside 1 his epistle? No, I am to take his epis- tie. subject it to careful study, pass it under the review of my reason, test 1t l by experience, and thus make it a. l practical guide in life. There is no oth- 1 CT sane method for the. Christian man to adopt. Let us therefore look at this text tonight in an unprejudiced, open minded way: "The prayer of faith shall i save the sick. and the Lord shall raise him up."
 You will notice, to take the first words of the text, that 1t does not say, 1 Prayer shall save the sick, but, The prayer of faith shall save the sick. Here is something that goes to the root of some very pressing difficulties. Some of you will remember that last Sunday
 evening I spoke of Jesus use of the
 principle of faith in healing. Tonight
 wish to speak of that faith operating
 in prayer. Ii is not faith alone; it Is not prayer alone; it is the prayer of
 faith that gives a man power; 1t IS
 faith going forth as prayer.
 How beautifully that is illustrated in
 the story of Jesus heanng the lad
 brought to him as he came down iron,