Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-06-14

awaited in the and the husbands corpse
~as hnahy carried out and buried.
III "a measure lne doctrine OF the bodily res
u.rec,ion Oh JESUS esponslpie Tor such "a
Sia-y ueiieI. mas come the TURNER
"o.,on tnal sicAness and disease ali mere
iantasies, wI,n no actual existence, save III
me mind OIL the person afflicted. Inc opJecl
lheii, is 10 IA the mind OF the belief and the
disease disappears. PRACTICAL common sense
iiisisls that the nrst and most important step
as TO choke on the disease and the mind VIII
readily incline to the belief that it has gone
Take up any prayer book, in common use by
The churches of the Episcopal denominations
and turn TO the Apostles C. eed. In the clos
ing portion we read, Il believe in the resur-
rection OF the body and this is repeated and
recited at frequent and regular intervals by
men and women whom the world would credit
with having better than to reiterate
such belief. Nothing has been more clearly
demonsti ated than the fact that life is the
proper functioning of the organs, that disease
is the failure or inability of OF the
organs to properly perform their functions
In the face of this there yet be fools enough
to believe that life can be restored through
the simple act OF prayer and faith. In the
case under consideration Mrs Carpenter will
have to console herself with another belief
namely, that it not gods will that her
husband should be Reconstructed. Religion is
capable of working some strange faacies.
Many wonderful tales are told by returning
missionaries to credulous audiences Some or
these tales show, prima faca, that they are
untrue but the majority well construct
ed that unthinking people grab them like a
bass jumping at fly and the few ever sus-
pect there is any crooked business connected
In some instances, the missionaries. If to
suggest the great power of the Christian re-
ipin tell tbaV hay for IN, fl,a xxiI1ar
ness surrounded by hostile natives. their lives
hardly worth the snap of thumb and finger
and yet, bravery they plunged on and on, al
most giving up in despair when, to their great
joy they saw the building of house OF
Christian worship and they Immediately
praised God for guiding them to it, In other
wo.ds they were safe. for here evidences
of civilization.
The latest told is by far the best. 1t
is given by Rev. George Bailey, of Washing
ton, ID. c.. who, returning with number OF
alleged missionaries from Ephesus in Asia
Minor, related how he had been held up by
brgands and that he successfully stalled them
off by reading the Bible to them. Might just
just well nave been Paines Age of Reason.
But let us suppose the preacher had deck
of cards. Does he not think that the attract
i've little paste boards with their usual color
ings would have the admiration and atten-
ton of the brigands until help came quicker
than the mere reading from any book. Then
again comes the horrible suspicion that the
brgands failed to Understand what was being
read to them, for 1t is not said that the read
ing was given in their own language. Neither
is it reported that the natives understood the
English. If they could have understood the
reading there Is cause for establishment
that the brigands should stand amazed at
what was being read to them, especially II
they heard it for the first time.
Sizing up the situation it would appear that
this sky-pilot had enjoyed a trip abroad with
out being missed from home. and. being anx-