Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-03-15
Modern Miracle of Healing
Seen in Curing White Plague
Saving the Body May Result in Saving the Soul Interesting
View Presented in Strong Address in Local Pulpit Yes
terday on Subject, "The Mission of the Church and the
Ministry Of Healing"

= tcreasing more rapidly than any othe
, denomination. They have one hos
!. pital known all over the world ant
costing several million dollars. Tina
they are working along biblical linei
there is no question.
christ's most touching and rcalisti,
parable Is that of the Good Samaritan
who used his horse for an ambulance
and made q hospital out of the no.
tel 1t should be observed also that
he used medicine on the wound.
Can we not and should we not
manifest the same spirit as Of old and
can we not practice the healing art
in the name of the Christ? Is it right
for the church to turn this gift over
to secular men and measures or even
worse to psychic cults which though
they lain the power can never de-
liver the goods? The mission of the
church of Jesus Christ is not to save
souls in the narrow sense. but to
save men-body. mind and soul. And
when she does this the common peo-
pie, who heard the Master gladly, but
who we are told are drifting from the
church today win come back to her
and hear the gospel with the same
gladness as they did on the shores
of Galilee. The mission Of the church
is not to save herself but the world
The Christians mission is not to sit
in the pew listening to eloquent SER
mons and songs.
Such a mission and such a ministry
will save the church from being mar
row.. 1t is possible for a church to
be small just as IS the individual
small who confines himself to his own
affairs or merely the affairs of his
n%eighbor.
The Presbyterian Brotherhood. in
n of the large churches Of the east
has planned, as far as possible. that
member Of the Brotherhood
be a member also of some one
of the numerous charitable ~institu-
tons of that city. The purpose as eX-
pressed is hat the work and sympa-
thies of the men may not be narrow
ed down to their oWn church that
they may be given Il wider outlook,
they may have a truer grasp on
the spirit of brotherhood.
! believe the church needs this
wider outlook. Some time ago the
ministers OF a certain city were asked
~ IitdtH VII iHt iubtICuldI uufSllnlll
was just then being agitated,
md a religious newspaper raised the
question whether il was the duty OF
1 minister to preach on sueh "A theme.
As | read my Bible / wonder that ,
a question should be asked by an [
intelligent man. For my part | have !
lot the shadow of a doubt how Jesus |
christ regards the minister whose
preaching. for example, contributes to
he building of better houses and the [
providing q better sanitary condition
or the poor. | have no doubt as to }
verdict IN the preaching that Z
forth large sums OF money for {
he building of sanitariums and the !
of them so that those who
little of this worlds goods viii
when sick, as good II chance
or recovery as the rich. oh think a
What the church might do for the
ubercular question which she has not
Think what our own church
Ould do. Ten cents a member would
can an income of $500, 600 a year
i've dollars a member would mean q l
lift of 5000 .0O0. 1t would build 60
en- sanatoria with modern equipment
nd secure for them the best skill
7hich the worl dean give FOR COM I
atting the disease, You say this
not be saving souls. | say this !
,ould be saving souls. These insti-
ltions would be under Christian ad-
Illustration and be Christianity'sl
host effective demonstration that She
divine. While We are healing the
ody Christ-likc we would be heal
Is the soul. =