The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-06

Boston, Mass, and Rev. Mary Baker
r Of the Church.
but If he learned that they had only
functional difficulties he would accept
them as patients!
Over against all this suggestion,
however, is the significant fact that
Jesus healed most Of his patients in
simultaneously, and that he cured the
most difficult cases in much less time
than would have been required even
to summon physician, to say nothing
about tedious and painful examina-
| tions. If the Master had been a fall
| ure In the treatment of disease, if facts
could be named in evidence that he
succeeded only with functional disor-
ders while he failed to cure organic
cases, then there might be some
ground for affirming that, if now up
on the earth. he would need and util-
iZe modern medical practice; but when
we remember that he healed the most
difficult cases instantaneously and
that he never lost a case-that he
cleansed the leper, raised the dead,
while the daily failures even of the
most approved medical means may be
counted by the thousands, we may we'll
ask: Is it reasonable to suppose that
the Master would have been glad" to
set aside his perfect system of curing
the sick in order to avail himself of a
method which frequently and lament
ably fails? It would seem that any.
Christian minister would blush to as
sumo that either modern or ancient
medical diagnosis gives better state
ment Of the cause of disease than that
expressed by Christ Jesus when He
said, "Sin no more, lest worse thing
come upon thee" and when He re-
ferred to the woman probably afflicted
with rheumatism as one whom Satan
hath bound, 10, these eighteen years."
Our Lord treated these cases on the
assumption that sin-and not a ma
terial cause-waS the foundation of
their affliction, and with far better
success than any modern physician.
At this point it is legitimate to in
quire what particular advantage over
the Apostolic means and methods is to
be found in the Emmanuel Movement,
either as regards organic or contagious
disorders. Jesus remedy was always
at hand. He was able to call it into
action instantly and without being en-
numbered with a medical case or the
expense of diagnostician. His meth
cd was entirely safe in handling conta-
| gion because he instantly healed His
patients and thus removed all occasion
London, England, DR.. McComb declar-
ed, however, that in the ancient days
there were two species of leprosy, one
that was contagious and one that was
not contagious and this probably &C
counts for the fact that Jesus permit
ted His leprous cases to mingle with
he public" He has suggested further
that these cases were probably of the
uon-contagious type! Such an argu-
ment belittles the omnipotent power
0f our Lord and would discourage the
feeble and fluttering faith in God
which exists in the modern Christian
world. Men have occasion to be
thankful that Christian Science has
saved the Bible from doubt and inf
deity, and has already prepared the
world against such a travesty on the
teaching and practice of the Master,
| for it has healed thousands of cases
of organic and so-called contagious
| troubles.
! DR.. Mcdonald Of Brooklyn treats this
question somewhat differently. He
says: Because Christ drew no line be-
| tween functional and organic maladies
is no reason I should not. l compli-
ment him more when l draw the line
than when l wander all over the field.
That drawing of the line shows that +
consider Him bigger man than I am.
He was perfect" This is quite a
sane point, but the gentleman should
| have reasoned further. The facts in
evidence lead to the conclusion that
not only was the Master perfect, but
that His method was perfect also. 1t
is manifest that even perfect man
could not reach a desired destination if
he followed wrong course. We hon.
! or the individual who recognizes that
! he must suffer to be so now usages
and practices which the perfect man
may eliminate, but there is no excuse
for the effort made by some to sub
stitute modern psychology for primi-
tive Christianity under the apology
that the only reason why Jesus trou-
| bled Himself with the tedious method
of utilizing divine power in destroying
sin and sickness, rather than avail
HipSelf pf the modaru method of Dre
pairing pills and plasters and entering
into diagnosis which sometimes con-
sumes days, was that these modern
conveniences were not in existenee and
hence not available in His time. At
| ter all. the important question IL Is to