The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-13

was one who did this very thing, and
it sounds so much like the way the
Christian Scientists are sometimes re-
preached, that | will quote it. 1t was
CELSIUS, about two hundred years af-
ter Christ, one of the bitterest.
shrewdest. and ablest of the heather
antagonists of Christianity. He
said: "The teacher of Christianity
acts like a person who promises to re-
store sick man to health and yet
hinders him from consulting skilled
physicians, so as to prevent his own
ignorance from being exposed" Are
there those today who reverse this
charge Of the heather CELSIUS, and
send sick people to the physicians to
prevent their ignorance of the Bible
and of Jesus way Of healing from
being exposed?
If it is so very bad for the Chris
tian Scientists to charge for healing
the sick, what about those who
charge for preaching gospel that
does not so much as know that it
ought to heal the sick? But the
Christian Scientists do not charge for
healing, because they know they do
not do the healing; but if they devote
their time to this work, they are com
PEELED to charge something for their
time, with which to pay their living
expenses and continue in the work.
Many persons are healed in Christian
Science in a few days and at an eX-
pense Of a few dollars, having failed
to get relief after paying physicians
hundreds of dollars and after suffer
ing and contributing literally to the
preachers salary for years. 1t Is
entirely natural that some preachers;
and some doctors should feel like
standing together; if the patient lives
he may never know any better, if he
dies he never returns to tell of the
mistakes of either of them. For my
part, | should rather think that a
gospel that would save me for some
of the ills of this life, would be more
likely to save me from perhaps great
er ills in the life to come. Christian
Scientists have no hostility to doc
tors, they would not abolish the drug
system if they could do it by legisla-
ton to day. They realize that there
are many persons not yet ready for
Christian Science treatment, and to
deprive them of the consolation of
being attended in their illness by a
physician in whom they have conf
dence would be the refinement of cru
city; as cruel as the efforts frequent
ly made through legislation to re-
quire parent to employ for his sick
child a physician of some particular
school in which he has no confidence,
or to require a Christian Scientist to
turn from his Saviour whom he be-
lieves with all his heart to be the only
true Physician, to mere human
agent whose methods he believes to
be aggressively harmful to his
child.
Jesus said the signs should follow
them that believed his gospel-that
is, the message or truth which he
came to proclaim to the world. 1t is
not a belief in the personality of
Jesus, but belief in the truth he pro-
claimed that is to heal and save the
people. The only Scriptural way to
believe in or on Jesus is to believe
and practice his gospel truth. He
said, eff We love me, keep my com
mandments." There is no other eff
fectual way to believe on Jesus. The
healing and saving power or virtue is
in the truth he taught and lived, it is
incident to and inseparable from this
truth; wherever this truth is under
stood and effectually believed, there
is bound to be manifestation of its
power In the obstruction of sin and
disease. 1t was not attached to the
personality of the man Jesus, and
was not transferable from one per-
sonahty to another personality. The
only way Jesus could convey this
power to others was to teach it to
them and by living it himself encour-
age them to live it, Jesus came, not
to bring this truth into the world,
but to reveal it as already everywhere
present in the world. He said, "TO
this end was | born, and for this
cause came | into the world, that |
should bear witness unto the truth y
A witness is one who bears testimony
to that which already is. Now, truth
is universal, like principle, it applies
impartially to all peoples, in all ages
at all times, world without end; as
Jesus said, $40, am with you al
ways, even unto the end of the
world" Before Abraham was