The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-21

so, practically, deny that Jesus told
the truth? Don't you see where the
trouble lies?
Look back to the time of the En-
peror Constantine, when he assumed to
be the head of the church of Christ
on earth. He found the sick still be-
ing brought to the churches so that
the elders might heal them. He began
to clothe the simple faith in form,
ceremony and ritual! He clothed him
self in gorgeous robes, and finally sue
ceeded in so pleasing the eyes and
ears of the people that they clothed
the Spirit of the Word in the grave
clothes of the letter, and the ability
to heal was lost. Don't you see from
that they clothed the Spirit of the
Word in the grave clothes of the let
ter, and the ability to heal was lost.
Don't you see from that time to this,
mankind has been trying to excuse it
self for it's unbelief because it has
not been obedient to the Wayshower
by and through whom we must reach
the Kingdom of God?
Let us all go back beyond Constan-
tine to Christ. Let us forget that
Constantine ever existed, let us take
that simple, plain, sweet altogether
lovely religion that Jesus preached;
let us take that Word into our homes,
iunto our business, into our everyday
to Love our neighbor as ourselves.
Then we shall find we can pray the
prayer of the righteous man, which as
cendeth unto the throne, and which
accomplished much. Then we shall
| find the Truth of that statements: ASK
whatsoever We will in my name, be
| lieving, and that shall We surely re-
ceive;;" there being Done who can
| fail to receive, who turns to God with
our Wayshower turned to Him.
Now, what about this belief of sin,
| disease and death being real? You
know universal belief is not any
more foundation for fact than it
would be if the belief We're confined
to one person. To Illustrate what
mean by this, l am going to call you1
attention to the time of Columbus
You remember that he was treated
with scorn and contempt and cast i'll
| to prison because ne stood up before
the wise men of this time, (and
| want to say this to you that every
generation thinks it's wise men are
the wisest men that ever We're wise
and the people four hundred years
ago thought just that), and said, every
one of your scientific Deductions every
one of your scientific theses, every one
| of your scientific experiments to prove
that this earth is fiat do not amount
at all, because the earth is a sphere
Who was right? Columbus was right
of course, and the wise men We're a,
wrong. What effect did the universal
false belief have ON the shape of the
earth? None, the earth kept on beins
a sphere just the same. What effec
did the false belief have on the people
who believed it to be true? So lone
as the people believed the false belle
to be true, they We're held within The
narrow confines of that belief ant
stayed on that little speck of the
earth's surface because they feared tina
if they sailed to certain point, the,
would fall off the edge of the eartl
on to that something or nothing OF
which Atlas did or didn't stand whel
he did or didn't hold up the earth
In our own times we look back ant
pity the ignorance which thought i
was wisdom, and are positive. just II
the contemporaries of Columbus We're
that there is absolutely no question
but what our wise men are the wis
est wise men that ever We're wise, ant
yet 1t is within the living memory O
many IN this audience when our wis,
men We're filling the newspapers an,