The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24

Through pain and suffering the PEN
atty of broken law is ever inflicted.
To run a universe, either physical
or spiritual, without law is inconceiv-
able. Jehovah created and maintains
his universe by law, perfect law, and
he only is superior to his own law.
But. If one may Judge both from
history and Divine revelation, he sell
dom asserts that superiority. That he
has not and does not at times, / would
not for a moment maintain.
Disease is doubtless the result of
disobedience to law, and so supreme
does the Creator consider evidently
the Importance of the incubation of
law, that he plainly says: II will visit
the sins (disobedience) Of the fathers
upon the children to the third and
fourth generation Of them that hate
me Claw breakers).' And think you
that He who through cycles of time
has been faithful and untiring in his
purpose to teach obedience will per-
NIT the creatures of one little genera
ton by denying the law and it's very
existence to thus escape the penalty
of its violation.
Christ healed instantaneously and
gave his disciples power to heal. But
the purpose was clear. He must es-
tablish his divinity in an unbelieving
world and he knew that his disciples
would have to meet similar condi-
tons. l do not say that he did it
not for loves sake. He doubtless did
for his great brooding. father heart
was panied at the sight of suffering
and misery.
only symptom of deeper malady
and that malady is sin. The divine
Savior did not come to earth to deal
with symptoms. He came to lay
hands on the ultimate cause far back
of all symptoms
He came to earth, primarily, as /
believe, to teach obedience to law.
He breathed the spirit of obedience to
his Fathers will Oaw) in every ut
terance, in every act. He went so
far in his example to obedience to
law as to suffer the final penalty of
a broken law, which he himself had
never broken. 1t was the rage of
hell against law, and the shafts of its
rage were hurled against Him who
had attempted the vindication of the
law. If Moses was the great law
giver, Christ was the great justifier
of the law. If philosophy proclaimed
law inexorable, love proclaimed law
beneficent. Socrates taught philoso-
ply treason for law and poison was
his fate. Jesus was both preacher
and eXemplar of the law, and his was
the cross. In final testimony, Soc
rates died like a philosopher. In
self-abnegation of divine passion, Je-
sus Christ died like a God.
But why, why this tremendous, this
| awful emphasis upon obedience to
law? The answer is plain.
A universe ungoverned by law is
| unthinkable.
A law breaking race in a law gov
erned universe is impossible
Were Jehovah to institute a plan
of easy and immediate healing of dis
ease, he would nullify his own laws
and encourage law breaking.
But Christianity is really healer
| Of disease as well as destroyer of
sin, because disease and sin are dis
obedience and Christianity teaches
enlightened obedience to the Divine
Will.
Applied science is the handmade of
the Christian church, since applied
science is but the classified knowl-
edge of, and obedience to Divine Will
| Qaw).
A year ago a typhoid epidemic
struck North Yakima and North Yak
ina decided that her sanitation was
out of harmony with law She Sc
cured expert service to discover and
remove the cause, that is, to get in
| harmony with law. Today not a
| healthier city exists in the United
| States. Let me prophecy that North
Yakima will never again tolerate dis.
obedience to sanitary law, to the ex
| tent Of her understanding of that law
The New York Evening Post tells
us that Every day in the year there
are two million people seriously sick
| in the United States, and it is con-
| servatively estimated that our annua
loss from preventable diseases alone
| is two billion dollars.
Consumption alone formerly cos
| the United States over a billion dol.
| lars a year.
Since the discovery OF the germ by
DR.. Kotch and of the improved meth.
DDS of prevention and cure, it has
been shown that where this knowi-
edge has been applied, seventy-five
per cent of the loss from consump-
ton can be prevented. Typhoid fe.
yer cost the country $350,0O0, 900. OF
year. The city of Pittsburg alone
has. by careful investigation, beer
| shown to have lost $3,142,000 from
| typhoid fever in one year. The dis
| covery that typhoid is produced b,
| special germ which is usually got.
| ten from the water or milk supply
| or from flies. has made it possible
| to control this expensive disease. As
soon as all our citizens have good
| sanitary training this $360,000, 10000
| expense for typhoid can be completely
| eliminated, besides untold suffering
| spared. Both history and experience
| have clearly shown that the penalt,
| for disregarding law falls upon the
| ignorant as well as the Willful in
| tractor of law. To my mind this
same history and experience clearly
| demonstrate that He who made laws
| fully intended to vindicate them, and
| has not provided nor will provide ar
| easy escape from the penalty of theii
| infraction. Abraham Lincoln said